I'm thinking of getting a tab, and I'd like separate accounts for myself and my partner. Is it possible to have multiple accounts like you have in windows ?
Not possible as of now
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Not possible as of now
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Not even with a custom rom (sorry I don't know if this is possible)?
Unfortunately, not possible yet. It's been a complaint about android for a long time now. I kind of forgot about it but now I realize I'm unhappy they didn't add it to ICS... Thanks for reminding me...
We just got a transformer tablet at work and we had to tie it to a public gmail account dedicated to this device but multiple users will need to use it and have it tied to their google apps account. This is a problem for us and the apps that 'divide' the tablet just cost too much for what they do. We have at least 4-5 people who would use it. This isn't a situation where we should just have a tablet for each employee. The scientific work we do requires so much equipment that it has to be shared and scheduled. The tablet is just another thing we have to pack up in the morning when we have field work on our project. Multi user android support is badly needed!
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Hello, i have a scenario where i need to purchase nearly 50 licenses of a sw from Android Market, for 50 Android phones that i will give to my users.
Im very confused, how should i do that, since to enter market you need a google account? I can't spend my days creating accounts for all users...
Thanks for any suggestion!
Any Suggestion?
You could contact the developer and ask. Or contact Android Market support and ask them what to do for bulk licensing. They may be able to give you a solution.
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yes i contacted developer, no corporate licensing is allowed, they suggested me to buy all the licenses using the same gmail account, but doing that dozens of times would be an incredible waste of time!
which is the best way to contact Android Market support?
you're assuming that the support center would answer you, which they haven't deemed necessary for any of my requests so far... :/
cool, so basically i'm stuck unless any of you have other ideas...
Android really lacks from business point of view...
up? any news/idea?
Well I think the developer(s) will have my head for this but you can use AirDroid (check it in Market) to export the license app from the phone to a pc, (and back to the phone to the phone in a folder for safe keeping if you wish). After doing so, you can simply transfer the APK file from the PC (or from the directory on the phone where you might have saved it) to all your employees phones by whatever means you wish, be it bluetooth, usb, or through AirDroid again.
Hello,
According to the Android Design Principles
Never lose my stuff
Save what people took time to create and let them access it from anywhere. Remember settings, personal touches, and creations across phones, tablets, and computers. It makes upgrading the easiest thing in the world.
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which I think is great. The app I'm designing involves storing photos and data about them. Is there a good way to back this up? I could sync with a webservice I could write/host, but then I'm opening myself up to potentially large bandwidth/storage charges.
I considered using drop box or something, but that would require my non tech savvy users to sign up. Is there any easy way to integrate the google cloud service (as my users will of course have a google account)? What do people normally do when they want to meet this design principle?
Many thanks
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Hello,
According to the Android Design Principles
which I think is great. The app I'm designing involves storing photos and data about them. Is there a good way to back this up? I could sync with a webservice I could write/host, but then I'm opening myself up to potentially large bandwidth/storage charges.
I considered using drop box or something, but that would require my non tech savvy users to sign up. Is there any easy way to integrate the google cloud service (as my users will of course have a google account)? What do people normally do when they want to meet this design principle?
Many thanks
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I believe there is an api for backing up user data to Google drive and since users will have a Google account they automatically have Google drive (Your app will have to request permissions to access users Google account I believe). This would be the easiest way to implement things as the drive api is a native part of Android, and you don't have to worry about bandwidth and hosting storage. In the past people have hosted there own storage for users to used and then usually tie this to an account users have to create. Overall, like I said I'd look into using the Google drive api.
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I believe there is an api for backing up user data to Google drive and since users will have a Google account they automatically have Google drive (Your app will have to request permissions to access users Google account I believe). This would be the easiest way to implement things as the drive api is a native part of Android, and you don't have to worry about bandwidth and hosting storage. In the past people have hosted there own storage for users to used and then usually tie this to an account users have to create. Overall, like I said I'd look into using the Google drive api.
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Thanks very much. A bit of an oversight on my part so I'll have a look through the API and see what it offers.
I do intend to charge a subscription for my app/service ultimately, but I think I need to make storage space the users problem to save myself sleepless nights.
I'll investigate and post back here what I find. If anyone can give me a link to an article on this I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
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Thanks very much. A bit of an oversight on my part so I'll have a look through the API and see what it offers.
I do intend to charge a subscription for my app/service ultimately, but I think I need to make storage space the users problem to save myself sleepless nights.
I'll investigate and post back here what I find. If anyone can give me a link to an article on this I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
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Here is the official Google documentation on using the Google Drive Api:
https://developers.google.com/drive/
Check out this article on network storage and android:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#netw
As well as this article on using the backup api and cloud sync:
http://developer.android.com/training/cloudsync/index.html
Also since you talked about eventually charging a subscription fee here is the official android developer documentation on that as well:
http://developer.android.com/guide/google/play/billing/billing_subscriptions.html
Wonderful, thank you very much indeed! I will give those a good read over when I get chance and let you know how I get on. It seems this could definitely be the answer, saving me money concerns and allowing my app to be multi user and backed up.
What I need to do is get my head around how I will use the cloud storage to allow my app to be multi user. Potentially I can make my database file based, and sync between two devices that way. My only trouble is when both devices are editing the same file / working on the same thing. I want the app to work offline, as I don't want connection issues to affect its usage.
Hmmm, I'll give it some thought.
Thanks again!
Hi guys
I want to beleive that in this forum we must have also many people that became parents in a time past.
My concern as a parent now is the internet safety and security.
Does anyone know any good applications for parental control on Android.
I dont care if its free or not.
Thanks
George
As you may know, Android currently supports multiple user accounts in tablets.. the same is expected in phones as well from the upcoming versions.. So you can have a separate account for your kid with the limited features that you wish..
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As you may know, Android currently supports multiple user accounts in tablets.. the same is expected in phones as well from the upcoming versions.. So you can have a separate account for your kid with the limited features that you wish..
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Thanks for the reply.
The point is the mobile most.
Thats where i need the filtering.
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Hi,
I've been assigned to set up my schools tablet system. I've got to somehow build a login system that can login the user, then send the login details to a network folder, and then after a set interval log the user out again and lock them out from logging in again that same day. I know a bit about android roms but not that much about apps. Anyone who want's to GUIDE me on how to do this? I'd really like to create something myself with the help of others and not get something prebuilt.
Thanks in advance,
Shadow
Do you have programming experience in general?
If you send info to a network folder how would you prevent a user from connecting to the network and changing the network folder manually?
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Do you have programming experience in general?
If you send info to a network folder how would you prevent a user from connecting to the network and changing the network folder manually?
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I don't really have any experience programming. I'm learning Java right now. And the system is for a primary school, so unless these kids are geniuses I don't think they'll change the network folder.
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I don't really have any experience programming. I'm learning Java right now. And the system is for a primary school, so unless these kids are geniuses I don't think they'll change the network folder.
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In that case, I think it's a pretty great project to learn Android development for a programmer. But since you're not a programmer, you will need to learn Java before...
But also, you'd be surprised what kids these days are doing.. With a simple download of Wireshark and the likes of it, snooping network traffic, etc... It really isn't rocket science anymore. But if it's not absolutely imperative that no student ever beats the system that really makes it a great learning project.
Unfortunately, I do not have time to properly and fully guide you through the whole process as I'd like, but for any direct question you have, I'll help as much as I can.
I assume you have some kind of deadline? How much time do you have for it?
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In that case, I think it's a pretty great project to learn Android development for a programmer. But since you're not a programmer, you will need to learn Java before...
But also, you'd be surprised what kids these days are doing.. With a simple download of Wireshark and the likes of it, snooping network traffic, etc... It really isn't rocket science anymore. But if it's not absolutely imperative that no student ever beats the system that really makes it a great learning project.
Unfortunately, I do not have time to properly and fully guide you through the whole process as I'd like, but for any direct question you have, I'll help as much as I can.
I assume you have some kind of deadline? How much time do you have for it?
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I have about a month for it.
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Well, that will definitely make you cut corners in your learning...
You'll either need lots of help from somoene experienced or use something prebuilt...
Hopefully there's someone here (or somewhere) who has the time and knowledge to help you. As I said, I can give you straight answers with a little bit of help, but guiding you through the whole project is unfortunately out of my available free time...
Another piece of helpful information for potential people to guide you though would be what exactly does "login" mean in the sense of will the tablet be unusable/locked while not logged in? While there be some apps locked? Will the tablet be "normal", but the login allows the user to access within the same login app some other stuff? Etc... This could potentially significantly change the weight of the project.
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Well, that will definitely make you cut corners in your learning...
You'll either need lots of help from somoene experienced or use something prebuilt...
Hopefully there's someone here (or somewhere) who has the time and knowledge to help you. As I said, I can give you straight answers with a little bit of help, but guiding you through the whole project is unfortunately out of my available free time...
Another piece of helpful information for potential people to guide you though would be what exactly does "login" mean in the sense of will the tablet be unusable/locked while not logged in? While there be some apps locked? Will the tablet be "normal", but the login allows the user to access within the same login app some other stuff? Etc... This could potentially significantly change the weight of the project.
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The login app basically needs to act as a launcher so that when people unlock the device they have to login to proceed to the homescreen.
In that case, I have no experience with developing custom launchers/lockscreens which would be the best solution. Hopefully someone who has experience and knowledge in that field will help you. You would also need to disable installation of custom launchers/lockscreen because that would easily override your lock so it makes the project actually not that basic and out of my domain, I'm sorry.
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In that case, I have no experience with developing custom launchers/lockscreens which would be the best solution. Hopefully someone who has experience and knowledge in that field will help you. You would also need to disable installation of custom launchers/lockscreen because that would easily override your lock so it makes the project actually not that basic and out of my domain, I'm sorry.
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It doesn't need to be a fully fledged launcher, it just needs to appear when pressing the home button
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But does the tablet need to be disabled if not logged in? If so, I'm not sure this could be achieved without a lockscreen/launcher and even then what if the user goes to apps and changes the default launcher... Hmmm...
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It just needs to be the default launcher, not really much else. Settings and other unnecessary apps will be disabled using the multi account feature
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It just needs to be the default launcher, not really much else. Settings and other unnecessary apps will be disabled using the multi account feature
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Hm, I'm reading up a bit on the multi account feature and it seems that users can still change some settings and install apps and also the feature itself seems to be available only on some devices so you might want to check for all this (installing apps might be a problem if a user can install another launcher instead of the current one). I don't have a multi-account capable device to check that out.
I'm guessing that whatever the case may be, the code for login would be the same so you might want to get started with a simple android app that just does the login (without actually logging in meaning anything) so you have that code ready. Until then, hopefully you, me or someone more experienced will think of what would be the easiest way to achieve the locking out and triggering the login and logout.
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Hm, I'm reading up a bit on the multi account feature and it seems that users can still change some settings and install apps and also the feature itself seems to be available only on some devices so you might want to check for all this (installing apps might be a problem if a user can install another launcher instead of the current one). I don't have a multi-account capable device to check that out.
I'm guessing that whatever the case may be, the code for login would be the same so you might want to get started with a simple android app that just does the login (without actually logging in meaning anything) so you have that code ready. Until then, hopefully you, me or someone more experienced will think of what would be the easiest way to achieve the locking out and triggering the login and logout.
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It works on the nexus 7, which is the tablet we're going to use
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I'm sorry, but why the funk should I use an app that FORCES me to login with stupid Facebook or Google +??
Funk ur application!
I've rooted my phone just to get rid of that brain washing Facebook!
This app is for sheep! Baaa..
Just login with your normal google account or simply stop trolling us.
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This app is simply letting you login because of their connection to their website. go back to 9gag or 4chan or whatever troll corner you come from, XDA is not the place for it.
Well, as per the OP's handle, I've said "Sayanora" to them as well. In fact, say "konnichiwa" to my ignore list! :highfive:
Aside trolling, I would like to use this launcher without an authentication or at least an anonymous mode or something... It looks like very nice launcher and more people would probably try it but don't want any personal info involved.
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Aside trolling, I would like to use this launcher without an authentication or at least an anonymous mode or something... It looks like very nice launcher and more people would probably try it but don't want any personal info involved.
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The devs have stated, in other threads, that they do not store your personal data. They use either your Facebook or Google account to verify that you are who you say you are in order to have access to the servers to download the themes. It's to prevent people from having spamming their servers which they provide to us for the themes. This is much easier than having to register ANOTHER account and password. Rather, use the Google or Facebook account as a way to authenticate you to have access to their servers.
They do NOT store your personal information on their servers nor store it nor send/sell it out to other parties. It's authentication and that's it. Period. No malice is being done to you or your information.
Heck, just having a smartphone alone is putting more PI out there than this app would.
And all those permissions it needs access to? You do realize that the majority of the stock apps you have loaded already have access to one or more of those services? Since Themer acts as a one-stop-shop for all those different apps (notifications from text messages, email read count, weather (which needs GPS), etc), and gives you access to different widgets to provide that information, then yes, it does need access to a lot of the services within Android. But, no one complains that Gmail needs access to that and your contacts, or that the weather app needs access to GPS info, etc. But, when they see one app have all that permission, they freak without actually researching.
Paranoia sure does run rampant in these parts! :laugh:
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I'm sorry, but why the funk should I use an app that FORCES me to login with stupid Facebook or Google +??
Funk ur application!
I've rooted my phone just to get rid of that brain washing Facebook!
This app is for sheep! Baaa..
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Hi,
As mentioned above, it's for security reasons on our side. We'll soon be implementing Facebook's 'anonymous login' feature.
I haven't used Themer for few months because of poor performance with my Optimus 2x(512 mb RAM), however this thing with Google account seems to be a much bigger problem than the slow performance. I simply do not want Google servers messing around my phone, I don't use sync or Play store. Is there a chance for Themer team to reconsider this decision?
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