Is it possible to make Android be able to run only one app? It seems that making a custom ROM might be the option.Can anyone point me to the right direction?
Asked
Active
Viewed 9,857 times
10
-
why would you want to do that? You could replace Home/Launcher activity with your app, though – Axarydax Mar 09 '11 at 07:31
-
2check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068084/kiosk-mode-in-android – Sarwar Erfan Mar 09 '11 at 07:32
-
many thanks for mentioning 'kiosk mode', a search on this keyword has already given some interesting results. And yes, replacing Home/Launcher seems a good idea as well. – Dumitru Hristov Mar 09 '11 at 07:43
1 Answers
4
Numerous answers and questions on this already. Basically you have the following options:
Creating you own rom.
Creating your own launcher application.
The best solution is definitely 1, but it's much more complicated. Making your own launcher application could be a solution but it would never be perfect, there would always be ways for the user to get back to normal Android, so if you can't accept that then you need to make your own rom.
Warpzit
- 27,966
- 19
- 103
- 155
-
If you just create a launcher app the user will have the option of selecting which launcher to use, so they can switch back to the system launcher. The only option to really lock down is to have a custom rom with the original launcher removed. If your device is supported well by Cyanogen you may want to start there :) – Torp Apr 06 '13 at 06:15