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rickmcrick
rickmcrick

Reputation: 23

Pin App on Wear OS, so a user only can interact with that app?

we go on a trade fair and want to present our WearOS App there, so the user can interact with it. For safety reasons we would like to pin the app so that a user only can interact with our app and no other apps until this mode is deactivated (so a user for example can not uninstall the app). There are similar options for android smartphones and ios devices we already use, but i did not found such an option for wear os. Does anyone know if it is possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (3)

Jason Winters
Jason Winters

Reputation: 1

From what I understand, getting approval for Knox is an arduous and expensive process. For my Wear OS app that needed kiosk mode, I used a 3rd party app to get there: https://www.42gears.com/products/kiosk-software/android-smartwatch-kiosk-mode/

Upvotes: 0

Veit
Veit

Reputation: 125

there is a kiosk mode if you use the samsung galaxy watch and are registered to use samsung knox (which is not easy but possible). so i guess there is also a kiosk mode in other wear os watches as well, probably via google enterprise services (which is also not easy to get)

Upvotes: 0

Turtlepaw
Turtlepaw

Reputation: 593

There's no kiosk mode on WearOS, but you can make your app into "kiosk app", when a user leaves your app (onPause) it will relaunch your app: https://medium.com/@sanatshukla11/achieve-100-kiosk-mode-on-android-wear-10d71fa55997

Upvotes: 0

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