I need to develop an android application that can allow users to easily change the password on the corporate account on their androids like in the screen below. The main goal is to avoid the long list of menus that they have to click through (and IT has to talk them through). NOTE: This only needs to change the locally saved password.
My first idea was to use the AccountManager setPassword function, but I received an error saying that the uid was different. From the looks of it, I would have to create and manage the account (including email, sync, and all that junk) within my app if I were to follow this method since AccountManager does not allow apps to mess with the data of other apps (Duh). I don't think this is really feasible.
My second idea was to simply launch the settings screen below from within my application. I'm relatively new to Android development, but have seen a lot of different intents used to launch specific settings. Is launching the specific account settings possible?
Incoming Corporate Settings
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Is there a way to open my application when a user opens a certain application?
For instance, I want to launch my application's floating button as soon as the user opens Instagram. Or even better is they open the "story" camera?
This is different from inexplicit intent, since, I don't have a way of interacting with Instagram, but is it still possible?
Do I need to check with the system to see which application are currently open or is there another way of doing this?
As NomadMaker says, in general this is difficult to do because it would be a security issue. In fact, an issue like this was published as the Strandhogg vulnerability. That said, some apps (like LastPass) use/abuse the AccessibilityService API to get this information. This would be an OK way to do this if you're making an app for yourself, but is discouraged if you plan to distribute the app.
I am developing an android application and i need clear the data of another application upon clicking an button.
i.e.: if i click button name "gmail" in my app,the data should be cleared of that "gmail" app
doubt:
1.Is it possible?
2.Do we need to be rooted our android device in order to do this?
° because greenify works with root access to force stop the other app flexibly.
I know that greenify works without root but pop that "force stop" ui screen of each single app to do that action.
MY APP FUNCTIONALITY:
I just wanted to develop an android apllication named "anti-theft cloud apps"
simply if an thief stols our mobile then my app detects when he changes the sim or an unique code send by mobile owner through sms from other mobile and logouts all the cloud based applications like gmail,google photos etc to protect our data to be stolen ,so in order to do that i thought of clearing other apps data(like gmail) PROGTAMITICALLY to logout. Is it possible
This is not possible with stock Android. You can do it with superuser, access root/data/data/PACKAGE and clear its content. But as seen in comment, this seems like evil thing.
Is it possible to get the user behavior on the phone (for example Alpesh has an Android phone and he uses multiple apps, browser YouTube etc). Whatever he is doing on the phone I want to get all those things from behind (which apps he has installed, which app he opens and what he search on the phone, All these data I want to get programmatically so what all can be get in android).
For now I am aware that installed apps list can be get easily but I want to get usage history and what he do all on mobile.
This is not a code solution, but an answer to your question, so you can get start some where.
In my opinion your question title are asking about two things.
(part 1) Getting User Behavior on the Android Phone (part 2)(App History, Browse
History etc)
1- First part Getting User Behavior on the Android Phone:
There is a concept called context awareness. Short described; it is about gathering different information from the phone, like light sensor, motion sensor, sound, location or even user behavior etc. and depending on your app requirement and the gathered information:
You could send these information over cloud data store for statically usage
You could make your phone doing (behavior) different things depending on location, motion or what ever.
etc.
For context awareness it is an open area for pervasive computing research. And it is not just few lines of code to write, it is typically a complete solution depending on requirement. Example I have built a context awareness application to gather noise collected by phones from different locations for research purpose inspired from this framework, but I am pretty sure you can find other frameworks or even build your own, as I did in my case.
The mentioned framework has some examples.
2- The second part is about App History, Browse History etc.:
This is possible, but you still need to build a peace of software (App) to collect all these information (logs) from the phone. Hereafter you can make phone act on different conditions and/or again send it over a RESTful API over cloud service data store, there is no limit for it.
The problem is, there is no thing out of the box for your requirement. Even if you find frameworks you still need to research it and further work on it.
You can find different examples for your requirement, like to collect browser history, you can find SO question here:
Get browser history and search result in android
Or get list of installed application:
How to get a list of installed android applications and pick one to run
My point here is you need to solve small goals at a time and put your knowledge together at the end.
Both 1 and 2 can also be related to each other, depending on your achievement.
Conclusion
Make a goal to your project.
Define the main requirements and tasks of your project.
Research your options (Technology, Cost, Target Audience, What data I can or I should not collect, what is possible to collect, what is the limits, Privacy issues etc.).
Split your project in small assets and try to solve small problems/goals.
Finally you would be able to put the puzzles together and build your final application
but i want to get usage history and what he do all on mobile
This is not possible and shouldn't ever be possible. Each app is sandboxed by Android so apps cannot inspect what other apps are doing. Think about it, you wouldn't want apps to be able to intercept private information such as banking details.
Every app is isolated from the other ones. Unless you develop a system signed app, you will not be able to gather all that data.
What you could do is to develop your own Android Rom where you then develop your data collection the exact way you want. Then you need to distribute your rom, which is another story...
I found many references to shared user IDs among two apps and it looks like what I'm looking for.
What I'm concerned about is that there are statements like permissions will be shared between the apps. If one of the apps is a system app, does that mean that the normal app will have system privileges too?
I want one app to be a regular app and one app to be a system one. I don't want the regular app to have any of the system admin privileges.
We are doing this so we can share a Content Provider. Our data is on the edge of being complicated enough for this, but I feel it's justified.
It appears that this is something you can't do. If you set up your system app as shared, you don't get any kind of an error, but Android appears to refuse to acknowledge it.
I took shared back out of my manifest file and it is working fine now.
Live and learn...
Is there a way to control an android device from an admin web interface using a php code? I have tried looking into other MDM platforms however they have a lot of requirements to be installed.
This is possible up to certain limit, like Run a certain app, delete files, create files , taking pictures, play video/audio .. anything that doesn't need users extended permission.
You need to create an app that has ability to perform what ever the task you need.
You can send an action through (SMS/notification) etc to the device.
Your app will take a action and do the necessary changes of the device.