Author Topic: Password to Uninstall Application (Read 1056 times)

514z4ng3r · « **on:** September 21, 2011, 04:43:35 PM »

Hello Everyone,

i am developing an application in android and want such functionality that without password the user cannot uninstall that application.

i searched quite a bit, but some of the solutions are kind of story telling, that you create a service that listens to android.permission.BROADCAST_PACKAGE_REMOVED and then such event occur my intent should ask for password.

need help for not to this way. any idea? please help me out, thanks in advance

514z4ng3r · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2011, 02:36:55 PM »

Can i stop it using ActivityMonitor?

514z4ng3r · « **Reply #2 on:** September 24, 2011, 07:05:31 PM »

this is the way how you can

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html

Factionwars · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2011, 09:50:55 AM »

Yhea, you need to install the application in admin modus, look up to prey project, (open source).
Without admin rights you are not able to uninstall it.

Kulverstukas · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2011, 11:02:23 AM »

Quote from: Factionwars on October 07, 2011, 09:50:55 AM

Yhea, you need to install the application in admin modus, look up to prey project, (open source).
Without admin rights you are not able to uninstall it.

Heh I think he wants it for an Android application. Prey is for computers, no?