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A physical button on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Returns from the programm to the home screen

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Override Power button just like Home button

Well, I am doing something in which I want to disable all hard buttons of the device. Hard buttons like Power, Home, Volume up, Volume down, Search, Back. I have successfully overridden almost all buttons here except Power. So I just want you people…
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iOS simulator home button double tap (to open task manager) often fails

Often when I try to open the task manager in an iOS simulator by double tapping the home button it takes a couple of tries. It doesn't matter if you use command+shift+H or the clickable button of the bezel. I had this problem with iOS10 but it seems…
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iOS simulator: double click home button does not work sometimes

With the iOS simulator version 10, double clicking the home button to bring up multitasking (running apps) sometimes does not respond. Even hitting (cmd + shift + h)x2 to simulate home button double click also works sometimes. I have verified this…
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Android emulator(Android Studio) Home button not working and giving logcat - I/WindowManager: Not starting activity because user setup is in progress

Started emulator from Android Studio and it's Home button not working. When I press Home button, in logcat I can see I/WindowManager: Not starting activity because user setup is in progress: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN…
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prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden not working on iPhone X

I am currently updating one of my apps to iPhone X and tried to hide the home indicator on a fullscreen viewcontroller showing an image using: override func prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden() -> Bool { return true } This method seems to do…
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How to enable a 'kiosk mode' programmatically in ipad?

I'm making an application that needs users' complete attention till a specified target is achieved. before achieving the target, if a user tries to press 'home' button it should be disabled, or like 'kiosk mode' in ios6. I just needed to be done…
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block Home Button in Ice cream sandwich and jelly bean

I am developing Lock screen where i want to disable Home button in ice cream sandwich and in Jelly bean , i can block it using following methods in android 2.2 , 2.3 @Override public void onAttachedToWindow() { // TODO Auto-generate method…
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iOS: Exit from the app to Home Screen programmatically with gracefully exit with animation?

According to the Technical Q&A QA1561 any way of exiting the app is not recommended. The appropriate way is to allow the user to exit the app on their own, without forcing exit or aborting the app's execution. However, the Microsoft Teams iOS App…
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IOS 6, safari fullscreen webapp, home button

I'm developping a webapp (javascript) to put on the homescreen of the iPad to be able to run it in fullscreen mode. Everything is working but after a random while, the home button doesn't work anymore. But the app still continuing to run, and the is…
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Detecting home button press on iOS?

Is there any way to detect if the user has pressed the home button on iOS? Obviously if the app is running normally the app delegate methods gets called, but if the device is locked to an app (through Guided Access or an MDM-server) so the app…
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How to disable lock the Home button in iOS 7

How can I lock the home button in iOS 7 ? I have 10 text fields and a submit button in a view. While I'm filling the text fields, the home button should be disabled. Only after filling all the text fields, should the home button be again…
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In-App Home Button to Navigate to MainPage allowed?

I was wondering about the implementation of an In-App Home Button that takes you back from any Page to the MainPage. As far as I remember this is not allowed by the WP7 Development Guidelines. But I can't find any written Information about that.…
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Can I disable Home Button on my App? (full screen browser kiosk mode)

I have to put a lot of iPads on a stantd on a tourist fair to show our web, and we don't want that people can use these iPads to play/enter facebook/etc. Is for this that I was searching an application that put the iPad on kiosk mode to show…
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how to detect tap home-button twice in ios9

In my app which am writing to learn swift and iOS9, I'm trying to pause my NStimer when user double click the home button and becomes at app switcher, accoridng to programming ios9 matt neuberg, when The user double-clicks the Home button, The user…
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android: Difference between pressing home button and power button?

does anybody know the difference between pressing the power button and the home button? In my app, I've tried putting a debugging statement in every lifecycle of the activity and both result the same, that is, the activity will be onPause and will…
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