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App pinning and lock task mode

App pinning and lock task mode - Android Tutorial

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App pinning and lock task mode

- [Instructor] When looking to lock an Android device into a particular application, there are few options to choose from. The two methods available for doing this are known as App Pinning and Lock Task Mode. You can kind of think of these as two different flavors of the same feature. App Pinning is a feature that allows a user to put an application into a fullscreen mode that they can only exit by holding the back and overview buttons. This mode can be used by any application without any additional configuration. An enterprise might use this if they need to lock a device into an application briefly, or to demonstrate something. This is more security through obscurity though, and in a production managed environment, should be avoided. Lock Task Mode is unique from App Pinning because there is no way for a user to exit. This mode, however, must be controlled by a DPC running as device owner. Both of these methods are available to all devices running Marshmallow or above. Let's continue…

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