Re: [android-developers] Getting notified when a device administrator is enabled/disabled

I don't understand how you can require some device admin.  If it isn't your own admin, how can you trust that it is actually doing what you want in any way.

If you want to have some controls provided by a device admin, you should write one and it can implement whatever communication with your apps that you want.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Rick Alther <rick.alther@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the quick response Diane.  No, I am not writing an Admin, nor do I want to.  However, I am writing some security tools for our corporation and we require a Device Admin on the device to enforce our security policy.  So, one of the things I'm doing is looking to see that they have a Device Admin installed and active (easy enough), but since the user can turn it off anytime they want, I'd like to be notified when it becomes disabled (and reenabled again).  I don't intend to do anything more with the info and I never expected to be able to affect an Admin in any way.  It's more of a notification/awareness thing.

I can set an alarm and query the list of active device admins periodically, but polling seems such a waste when a simple broadcast would suffice.

Thanks,
- Rick Alther

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