Pinning other applications as device owner

Question

My application is already device owner and I can pin my own activities without user interaction. But now I want other (legacy) apps to be pinned through my service.

Is this possible at all?

What I've tried:

• Starting my own 'launcher' app first and let that activity start the other application: nothing happens (the log tells me: "startActivityUnchecked: Attempt to violate Lock Task Mode")
• Calling the 'startLockTaskCurrent' on the internal activity manager (using a binder). This results in a missing permission "android.permission.MANAGE_ACTIVITY_STACKS" with a SecurityException. This permission is internal and only available for system apps (which I am not and will not easily be).

Any other solutions?

Answer 1

This is not possible.

You only have the option to use mDPM.setLockTaskPackages("com.foo.myapp"); inside your app and the other app can afterwards make use of the startLockTask(); method.