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How can you override the Home button? Did you manage to get this work using the latest APIs as well, or are you using the deprecated KeyguardManager? (When I'v

How can you override the Home button? Did you manage to get this work using the latest APIs as well, or are you using the deprecated KeyguardManager? (When I've last checked, it looked like Android doesn't want developers to do such things in the long run: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10349685/not-able-disable-home-button-on-specific-android-devices http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10349685/not-able-disable...)

tasn 11y ago
Hey, It's a combination of a few tricks for multiple devices. First and foremost, we use an overlay alert to paint over the whole screen. We detect if that fails to work and let you set our application as the default launcher. The launcher is the application that is moved to foreground when you press home, so that eliminates that. Once you unlock the phone, we disable our launcher functionality and let the default launcher go. We've iterated over the locking for months with over 100k users testing our locking methods for our other lock screen application. Unfortunately, the difficulty to properly lock the screen dragged our rating down over there (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tengu.musiclockscreen https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tengu.musi...), however recently we've been getting mostly positive reviews. Anyhow, locking mechanism aside, any suggestion for monetisation strategies? :P Edit: rephrase.
- wimagguc 11y ago
  Gotcha. I was curious if I missed a nice-and-clean unlock screen solution last year :) As for monetisation, I would perhaps AB test some of these: * In-app products: buy new instruments, better sound packages etc. * Native adverts: you might try to guess a song, and come up with a 'Sounds good? Get X from Y in iTunes', become Spotify affiliates or similar. * You seem to have a good community with over 100K downloads and 450+ 5-stars, you might be able pull off a buy-us-a-coffee kind of donation. (Beware, GP alone doesn't support PayPal donations.)
  - tasn 11y ago
    Unfortunately you haven't. This is an oil rig. It's dirty, stinky and dangerous, but it works. :P * Buy new instruments: thanks, that's in the pipeline, we'll hopefully roll these out next week or the week after. * This is a good idea. :) * Yup, our rating graph is quite interesting. We have a lot of people who absolutely love it, and we have had a lot of people who for whatever reason (mostly in the past) hate it. Thanks for your thoughts.

tasn 11y ago

Hey, It's a combination of a few tricks for multiple devices. First and foremost, we use an overlay alert to paint over the whole screen. We detect if that fails to work and let you set our application as the default launcher. The launcher is the application that is moved to foreground when you press home, so that eliminates that. Once you unlock the phone, we disable our launcher functionality and let the default launcher go. We've iterated over the locking for months with over 100k users testing our locking methods for our other lock screen application. Unfortunately, the difficulty to properly lock the screen dragged our rating down over there (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tengu.musiclockscreen https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tengu.musi...), however recently we've been getting mostly positive reviews. Anyhow, locking mechanism aside, any suggestion for monetisation strategies? :P Edit: rephrase.

wimagguc 11y ago
Gotcha. I was curious if I missed a nice-and-clean unlock screen solution last year :) As for monetisation, I would perhaps AB test some of these: * In-app products: buy new instruments, better sound packages etc. * Native adverts: you might try to guess a song, and come up with a 'Sounds good? Get X from Y in iTunes', become Spotify affiliates or similar. * You seem to have a good community with over 100K downloads and 450+ 5-stars, you might be able pull off a buy-us-a-coffee kind of donation. (Beware, GP alone doesn't support PayPal donations.)
- tasn 11y ago
  Unfortunately you haven't. This is an oil rig. It's dirty, stinky and dangerous, but it works. :P * Buy new instruments: thanks, that's in the pipeline, we'll hopefully roll these out next week or the week after. * This is a good idea. :) * Yup, our rating graph is quite interesting. We have a lot of people who absolutely love it, and we have had a lot of people who for whatever reason (mostly in the past) hate it. Thanks for your thoughts.