Password to Uninstall Application

[514z4ng3r]

Hello Everyone,

i am developing an application in android and want such functionality that without password the user cannot uninstall that application.

i searched quite a bit, but some of the solutions are kind of story telling, that you create a service that listens to android.permission.BROADCAST_PACKAGE_REMOVED and then such event occur my intent should ask for password.

need help for not to this way. any idea? please help me out, thanks in advance

[514z4ng3r]

Can i stop it using ActivityMonitor?

[514z4ng3r]

this is the way how you can

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html

[Stackprotector]

Yhea, you need to install the application in admin modus,  look up to prey project, (open source).
Without admin rights you are not able to uninstall it.

[Kulverstukas]

Yhea, you need to install the application in admin modus,  look up to prey project, (open source).
Without admin rights you are not able to uninstall it.

Heh I think he wants it for an Android application. Prey is for computers, no?

[Stackprotector]

Heh I think he wants it for an Android application. Prey is for computers, no?

Prey is for alot of devices