[Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use

[Alice Kaerast]

There are apps which allow parental locks, such as this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vlobe.smartappcloud.android.parentalcontrol
but judging from the reviews it either works great or not at all.

If you've got control over the network then you've a much better
chance of stopping people accessing the outside world from the
tablets.  If you connect all the tablets to your Google Apps domain
then you also get some level of group-wide control, although I wasn't
really paying much attention to that bit in our last training session.

Finally, on the topic of Android - our mobile developer is looking for
Leeds/Bradford based mobile developer groups to join if anybody knows
about any.

Regards
Alice


On 31 July 2012 10:11, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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