I'm attempting to use "Lock Task mode", as described on https://developer.android.com/work/cosu.html
My goal is to have a single app running in a "kiosk mode", so that the user cannot leave the app.
I'm using Google's "Test DPC" app from Google Play as the DPC, which I have made the owner of the device via: adb shell dpm set-device-owner com.afwsamples.testdpc/.DeviceAdminReceiver
.
It all works really well at keeping a trivial app (which calls startLockTask()
) in kiosk mode. (I have added this trivial app to Test DPCs list of apps which are allowed to use "Lock Task mode".)
The problem is that if a user holds the back button, they escape "Lock Task mode" while displaying a confusing toast of "App is pinned: unpinning is not allowed on this device".
Is there a way of stopping this escape mechanism?
Update: The problem occurs on an Asus P00A with Android 7, but does not occur on an Android P00C with Android 6.