AppPinning

"A Photo Manager" has a "Vault Protect-mode (Extended App Pinning)" that allows you to safely hand over your android phone to someone else and allow him/her to view only those images in Gallery-View, Geographic-Map and Image-View that you have chosen before.

Since Android-5.0 (Lollipop) Application pinning is part of the Android operating system to lock the current app so that exiting the app or starting an other app is not permitted while pinning is active.

Advanced pinning means that dangerous app-commands like edit/copy/delete/share/settings and changing the current album or "basefilter" are disabled while the app is pinned.

App Pinning is also known as

• Vault Mode
• Screen-Pinning,
• Kiosk-Mode or
• Lock-Task

Example

• Preparation:
  • Filter which photos your customer is allowed to see
  • Save the filter as "virtual album" (filter-bookmark)
• before handing over to customer: Load/open predefined "virtual album" (filter-bookmark)
• enter "Vault Protect-mode (Extended App Pinning)"
• hand over to customer
• after receiving device back: end protect mode.

See also:

• android-5 tutorial that demonstrates app-pinning.
• #105 implementation details.