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How to put necessary Android Activities in Lockdown

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Daniel
Hornbach Baumarkt AG

Hey Guys,

actually we need some Android Activities to be accessable within the Kiosk-Mode. e.g. for PTP (Picture Transfer Mode on USB Connection) So far we set this activity (com.android.settings/.deviceinfo.UsbModeChooserActivity) at position 1 in our Lockdown-Configuration

And in our Template, App #1 is hidden, so the User can't see any link for this activity. It has just to be accessable but not visible:


Now I have to grant access to a few more activities. The Question now: Can I write the Launch:// Command directly inside the Lockdown-Template so I dont have to add all these activities to the lockdown Config ?

I already tried to change <MCLink0> to Launch://com.android.settings/.deviceinfo.UsbModeChooserActivity but this is not working. Maybe I have to exclude some special characters ?!?

Did anyone of you solve this problem already ?

Many Thanks!

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5 years ago
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
5 years ago

 For your question about writing Launch:// Command directly inside the Lockdown-template, I can share with you some past experience.  This was confirmed to be possible in the last few years on various Samsung devices running Android+ device agent.  However, I recently did a brief test on some devices running Android+ or Android-Enterprise device agents, and there seemed t e some problem.  I haven't spent much time to further investigate the cause of the problem - whether it is the newer device agent or the advanced options chosen in the kiosk mode profile, or the way how newer MobiControl server extract profile configurations to update the appropriate application-run-control whitelist.

In fact, what you did using hidden visibility style is reasonablly simple and easy to handle a few more entries.   I would stick to this approach if I were you.

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