how to make my application device administrator in android?

android device-admin
rolling.stones picture rolling.stones · Jun 12, 2012 · Viewed 31.3k times · Source

I am trying to make my application device administrator , i followed some notes provided on the same at Device admin SAMPLE notes or TUTORIAL here but still could not implement it.

Can some one plz point out a working example of the same , i just need to make sure that to uninstall the application , user needs to enter the password which is set in my application.

Any help will be useful , Thanks in advance

Answer

CommonsWare picture CommonsWare · Jun 12, 2012

i just need to make sure that to uninstall the application , user needs to enter the password which is set in my application.

Fortunately, this is not possible for an SDK application. Even a device admin app cannot prevent the user from uninstalling it.

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