Run intent DevicePolicyManager.ACTION_ADD_DEVICE_ADMIN from a service
- by Zorb
I have a service and I want the service promote to enable it as Device Admin,
until now I launched this kind of UI interactions from the service like
Intent intent2 = new Intent();
intent2.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
intent2.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent2.setDataAndType(uri, "application/vnd.android.package-archive");
context.startActivity(intent2);
and it works, but with DevicePolicyManager I can't find the way:
Intent intent = new Intent(DevicePolicyManager.ACTION_ADD_DEVICE_ADMIN);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
intent.putExtra(DevicePolicyManager.EXTRA_DEVICE_ADMIN, mAdminName);
intent.putExtra(DevicePolicyManager.EXTRA_ADD_EXPLANATION, "some text.");
context.startActivity(intent);
does't work: do not promote nothing but also do not crash. Without intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); It simply crash because this code is inside a tread inside a service. Ideas?
