Android Question App to setup tablets and smartphones...

[EduardoElias]

Hi there..

I use tablets and smartphones commercially and I have customers with dozens of them.

And it is very boring to go thru each one and remove icons from desktop, change background image etc etc etc

I wonder if I could write an app to do the following:

- remove all the icons from the "desktop" make it totally clean, specially on Samsung that comes full of stuff on the start screen
- apply a custom image (png or jpg) background
- automatically download my app and install it
- automatically download and install applocker or something like it that will block the user from playing with it.

I believe android authorization dialog would appear that is fine, it is much more easy and app doing all these in a standard way than doing manually.

I wonder if this nice community could point me to the example/documentation for the items i mentioned.

Thanks !

 

[DonManfred]

I dont think this is possible.

 

[Erel]

You can make your app the home launcher app.

 

[EduardoElias]

You can make your app the home launcher app.

Please could you point to any tutorial/example/thread that explain how to do that?

THANK YOU

 

[Cableguy]

Search kiosk mode

 

[DonManfred]

1. ALWAYS search the forum before asking which you did not.
Check this https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/how-to-create-a-launcher-app.57659/#post-363037
I did not know any Tutorial about this

 

[DonManfred]

Search kiosk mode

Kiosk Mode app is not the same a a launcher app. Additionally you need to activate it with adb.

 

[EduardoElias]

1. ALWAYS search the forum before asking which you did not.
Check this https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/how-to-create-a-launcher-app.57659/#post-363037
I did not know any Tutorial about this

I do have checked before asking again

 

[Cableguy]

Kiosk Mode app is not the same a a launcher app. Additionally you need to activate it with adb.

It's not the same, but from the description of the purpose, I think it would be a better solution

 

[DonManfred]

Maybe you are right.

But as the App needs a very specific setup (to be a Kiosk app) it is unlikely that the app can be published through Playstore.

 

[techknight]

Hi there..

I use tablets and smartphones commercially and I have customers with dozens of them.

And it is very boring to go thru each one and remove icons from desktop, change background image etc etc etc

I wonder if I could write an app to do the following:

- remove all the icons from the "desktop" make it totally clean, specially on Samsung that comes full of stuff on the start screen
- apply a custom image (png or jpg) background
- automatically download my app and install it
- automatically download and install applocker or something like it that will block the user from playing with it.

I believe android authorization dialog would appear that is fine, it is much more easy and app doing all these in a standard way than doing manually.

I wonder if this nice community could point me to the example/documentation for the items i mentioned.

Thanks !

Welcome to my world. but try hundreds of tablets. I ended up going back to an older tablet and using Nandroid with a pre-built image. Problem solved.

 

[Cableguy]

Maybe you are right.

But as the App needs a very specific setup (to be a Kiosk app) it is unlikely that the app can be published through Playstore.

Still, a LOT is done by the app itself, and the dev (from his post I gather that every targeted tablet is pre-config by him) needs "only" to install his app (i.e. from SD card), set the app owner from pc, and set it as launcher app....
I thinks that his actual procedure is a lot more time consuming at this moment... I can imagine, even if done quickly, about 15 to 30 mins in each device versus 5 to 10 using kiosk mode.

 

[EduardoElias]

Welcome to my world. but try hundreds of tablets. I ended up going back to an older tablet and using Nandroid with a pre-built image. Problem solved.

yeah, but in my case it is for a POS app that I need the user can be capable to install from play store and run without any trick.... complicated

 

[Cableguy]

And it is very boring to go thru each one and remove icons from desktop, change background image etc etc etc

This lead me to think you had access to each device...

yeah, but in my case it is for a POS app that I need the user can be capable to install from play store and run without any trick.... complicated

That... Is a different story!