[Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use

[David Carpenter]

A friend has asked me the following and I though the list might be a
source of help/inspiration...

This is an art gallery that has a number of Android tablets: Model is
the A1CS Fusion5
http://www.amazon.co.uk/A1CS-FUSION5-Tablet-PC-Capacitive/dp/B007SHWKFQ 

"They are for use as part of an exhibition in a public art gallery, with
a wide variety of people using them. We'll be playing back mp3 sound
files by various different artists/musicians arranged into groups
(effectively 'albums').  

We need an audio/media player that offers a decent amount of user
interface customisation - basically to make it super simple to use, but
that also allows us to include our own image for each track and a good
paragraph of text information that can be viewed while listening to the
track too. 

We have tried various media player apps from the Google Play store, they
all look and work in pretty much the same way and don't really do what
we want them to. Some are too confusing to use and it is easy to get
'lost', and none of them allow us to include the text information as we
would like. 

We could make each audio file into a video file, with a still image
displaying the text information - this is a possible way round this
problem (using a video player instead, of course). 

The main issue is the functionality - being able to stop all tracks
playing and return to an overall menu screen at the single touch of a
button etc.

We're prepared to flash the ROM on these things and install a new OS if
that will help, but if anyone has any ideas about how we can get what we
want, I would be very interested to hear their thoughts!"

So looks to me like they need a locked down tablet so guests can only
access the music app, and then perhaps a customisable player, or an open
source/free software version that *could* be tweaked in the code

Anyone had any experience of this?

Thanks
David






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