This question is no longer active - I have been officially notified by the company that we're dropping Android and going with a system that is specifically designed for business use.
In our two sister companies we installed almost 500 android phones assuming they'd have security capabilities similar to Linux that would allow us to provide business phones to our employees but limit their access to apps. Unfortunately we've since found out that we were hugely mistaken. Android has decided that whoever has possession of the phone should have full access to everything. Unfortunately for us this has been a business nightmare, with huge data overages, employees downloading and installing anything and everything they can get their hands on from Play Store, the apps we need to run constantly being stopped by the task manager because too many apps are running at the same time with our employees arguing that the apps are buggy or the phone is broken. Due to our type of operation, the phones are passed from one employee to another often for weeks at a time before a supervisor or technician has access to them.
We absolutely need to either secure the phones or get rid of them. So...
From within a service, how do I capture when an employee clicks on an unauthorized app either from the desktop or from the applications menu? I've spent the last 2 days searching Google for an answer, but have turned up nothing. I know it can be done, because I have a couple of apps on my personal phone that do so.
We're using Android 2.2
Why not uninstall Google play store from the phones? And any other apps which are not needed?
It might be easiest too just install a parental control app. Here's an example, though this particular one may not meet all your needs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace
Have a look at the 3CX Mobile Device Manager. The sign up process is free and easy. Then you just need to download the app to each phone from GooglePlay and get it set up. I would be interested in knowing if you proceed with it and if it does everything you need it to.
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I am a Android developer and I had clients building their apps with my source and by doing that caused my fabric apps to grow quite large. Right now I have 1167 apps under my organization and i'm trying to clean them up.
the problem is whenever i click on apps i just get a loading screen and they never show up. I have left the site up for hours and never loads.
I really don't want to delete this account because it uses my main email i develop with and I also have apps in this organization that i monitor daily.
So how can I consolidate these 1167 apps down to just a few?
Mike from Fabric here. It wouldn't surprise me if you're hitting a timeout while we try to load all of the details for all of your apps. Email support(at)fabric(dot)io with the bundle id or package names that you do care about and we can remove the ones you don't need. Feel free to ask for me personally in that email.
I'm submitting my first app through iTunes Connect. It is a social networking community so I have to provide a demo account for the submission. My app already has a live database of users as there is currently an active web version.
I'm new to this and confused as to how I should handle this. Should I be creating a demo account that will not show up in any other live user's search results? Are the testers going to be attempting to interact with other live users? I am assuming I will need to show the various functions of the app, like messaging and events. In that case should I be creating a few "demo" users for the testers to interact with?
Alternatively, should I be linking them to the development version and development database? If that's the case, then the build that I send them would only be a development build then?
I am confused on how this is supposed to work and can't seem to find any information to help?
In my experience, you'll need to give them the production version that will go into the store. So not the development build.
When we submit an app for approval, it seems to get installed and activated on a couple of devices, but nothing much ever happens. They barely use it, as far as we can tell. We can tell that it's installed and run. We have previously been rejected when the network connectivity wasn't working right, so we know that they do look at the app after it's installed.
I'd suggest you make them an account that looks relatively anonymous (or even "Test Account" which you real users are hardly likely to try to interact with). You could create another account and say "If you want to send a message, send it to account xxxx". We've never had them interact with our app enough to utilise the suggestions we've made.
If you have an active / inactive flag, you could think about making these accounts inactive once the app is approved, then re-activating it when you next want to submit your app.
Good day all,
I have a java based phone (samsung star 2 5260) and it's three weeks that I'm trying to come up with a solution to receive notification on received emails.
The phone configures a periodic check for a minimum of 30 minutes, but I need a much more frequent control (five minutes maximum).
I have tried countless solutions, and I've come up with the closest one, being a custom mujmail midlet that supports my gmail mailbox over imap, deployed thanks to the netbeans editor.
Point is, I've modified mujmail's polling to run on the background, but audio does not play when the phone is locked, so even if the midlet checks and receives emails, it's unable to notify me. The application minimizes and keeps on running, but it's unable to tell me that new mail has arrived.
I've even tried sending an sms when there's new mail, but was unable to sign the application (looks like ktoolbar produces 1024 bit certificates, and thawte, verisign, etc. will only produce 2048 bit certs since a few years.), and so it'll always ask authorization, which renders this approach useless.
So I'm desperate to find an alternative.
And I was hoping that we can in some way emulate the 'system alert' that the phone uses when it's locked and you receive an sms (audio cue).
Is this a j2me functionality, or is it specific to the samsung sdk?
Does anybody have an idea of how to access this functionality from inside a midlet?
Is there a way to create a midlet in the trusted third party domain without signing it?
I know j2me is an old subject, but hopefully someone here is still knowledgeable about it.
Thanks in advance.
Looks like you're expecting too much from JavaME.
If it's possible to do what you want, you can be certain that it requires signing.
Basically you have to sign your MIDlet with a certificate that is supported on your phone. Most developers go for Thawte or Verisign, because their certificates are supported on the most devices.
If you're only interested in getting this to run on your own phone, it's possible you can find a much cheaper provider, like e.g. Samsung themselves. But I admit I don't know.
In any case, there's no way around signing, when you want to do things like this with JavaME.
(Well.... there's a tiny slim chance that your phone lets you set permissions, like "Never ask" in the MIDlet properties on the phone after installation, but only a tiny slim chance).
Even after signing your MIDlet, it still won't be able to wake up the phone. JavaME is a sandbox. If the user puts the phone to sleep, then JavaME can't wake it up. (At least not without special API's, which I don't think exists).
If it was me, I'd investigate this approach:
Implement PushRegistry timer to launch the MIDlet ever 5 minutes. This should theoretically launch the MIDlet despite the phone sleeping. (But not if it's turned off).
Then attempt if you can play an alarm sound here.
If you can't, then I'd look into sending an SMS to myself.
My company uses Quick Books Online for its accounting, and that's where we go to log our time against projects. In an effort to make time entry easier, and a way to learn how to write a Windows 8 Metro app, I thought it would be a useful project that simplified time tracking, application that could automatically submit my time to QB. The thought would be users would use their own QBO logins so it would be able to see their time entries.
I have been looking around the api for QBOE and can't seem to tell if its possible to connect to a QBOE account with non admin credentials. Is what I am thinking even possible?
No, this is not possible. You will need something in the middle to talk between QB and your application.
There are a number of different timesheet apps on appcenter that you might look at. https://appcenter.intuit.com/category/time-tracking
Does anyone know how to access Contacts in Windows 8 Store apps?
I know that because of the sandboxed nature, Windows Store apps cannot access AddressBook from files such as Outlook Express contacts or Outlook, but since there is already an app called People that comes pre-installed, I figure why not let users make use of whatever Contacts the user has already allowed the app to see, rather than creating separate list of Contacts for my app. It seems silly to recreate the wheel by asking the user to re-import all the contacts again.
I have seen Contact Picker example but I still have no clues how to get list of Contacts/People as in that People app.
I have not developed for mobile phone, however if the device is a mobile phone, surely the app is expected to use local contacts rather than keeping separate list of contacts. So I am thinking there's got to be a way to do the same thing on a PC or any device really, rather than each app managing its own contacts. I have not seen any guidance on how to do this. What are your thoughts?
I asked a similar question a few days ago and, after a lot of research, it looks like it's just not possible to get that information from the people app outside of the contract. The reason that it works within calendar/mail/messenger is because they're all technically contained within the same app and are able to use each other's data and violate normal rules.
A lot of people have pointed me to look at the live SDK, but it still seems like it's not at all possible to get people information in your app, since the SDK doesn't support it anymore.
Look at the ContactPicker class :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br224913.aspx
Another way is to share your resource or whatever you want to send and user will choose an app that will send or on any another way use your shared resource (url, image, whatever)
IMO the latter is preferred way since then user will have a choice of applications that can send mail or post that resource on facebook / twitter.
Check this sample on ContactPicker