[Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use

[David Carpenter]

Ah - yeah Leeds Hack could have been the opportunity!

So what about locking down the device so they good honest punters can't
play Angry Birds all day.

I like the browser idea, and I've seen 'kiosk' browsers that lock a
machine down (but I don't know about tablet devices) - I think Opera has
a built in option.

Does the browser option also give free internet to punters that know how
to turn the wifi on perhaps?

Cheers
David
On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 11:05 +0100, Brian wrote:
> I agree that a browser based application would be good because some
> mark-up could be used to facilitate the required functionality.
> Keyboard shortcuts would have to be blocked though. It is a pity that
> this question was not put earlier, it might have been taken up by one
> on the participants at last weekend's "Leeds Hack".
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>
> To: bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 10:57
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use
> 
> 
> Not sure this is on the right track, but here we go anyway.  Using a
> browser as a front end would do what they need and zina
> http://www.pancake.org/zina/ comes close on the requirements though
> might take some fiddling to do per-track images and text instead of
> per-album.  Use the old version to avoid need for database.
> 
> Even better, you might prefer to use that as inspiration to knock up
> something even simpler yourself.  It's not hard to envisage browser
> buttons that use trivial CGI scripts to control playback via mpc & mpd
> / whatever, the images & text would be trivial, and with static html
> you could even host the content locally in flat files on each tablet
> (no need for even a local httpd).  Just up your street Mr Carpenter
> :-)
> 
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> Hey, you could quit the band and go solo with a Sting tribute act :P
> 
> Tarra
> -D.
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