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Android Application for Kids

I'm Developing Android Application for Parental Controlling, so I want to disable home and back button. Because kids are unpredictable, their can push home button or back button and so on. Than i want to disable sliding notification bar. (Because notification bar can change device configuration and setting)
I'm planning to create Android Application which is similar to the Samsung Kids Mode-Parental Control.
Is possible to create application like Samsung Kids Mode? Can you give some link/article or even example program to me?
I Have tried this :
#Override
public void onAttachedToWindow() {
this.getWindow().setType(WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_KEYGUARD);
super.onAttachedToWindow();
}
but it not handle home button, the Home button still working.
Thanks in advance to everyone for taking time to read this, hoping a positive solution.

I dont know of anyway to override the home button. Im not sure that it can be done. You can override the back button like so.
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
//do nothing, important dont call super.onBackPressed
}
Another this you can do is set the app to immersive mode to reduce the chance of accidently exiting the app
https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html

Extended from Activity
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
}
can be used to override back button. Be sure to remove super.onBackPressed().

UISpec4J and external application

I am trying to launch an external application for testing using UISpec4J.
Here are the questions and their answers I referred so far:
How to automate a swing java web start application which runs clicking a link into a web application, which is automated with Selenium WebDriver?
Getting all windows using UISpec4J
UISpec4J Capturing modal dialog, before the trigger finish
my.exe referred below is a Java application wrapped in exe using some tool. Internally it uses the jars and is Java GUI application.
This executable launches a splash screen first, then a dialog to choose where you want to connect to and after that main window is shown. Unless I can automate where I can connect to I won't get main window.
Based on these questions I have come up with following code fragments:
this.setAdapter(new UISpecAdapter() {
#Override
public Window getMainWindow() {
return WindowInterceptor.run(new Trigger() {
#Override
public void run() throws Exception {
// running jnlp by netx launcher
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\my.exe");
Thread.sleep(10000);
}
});
}
});
In the approach above I simple get "No window was shown" error.
this.setAdapter(new UISpecAdapter() {
#Override
public Window getMainWindow() {
final Window[] result = new Window[1];
WindowInterceptor
.init(new Trigger() {
#Override
public void run() throws Exception {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\my.exe");
//Thread.sleep(10000);
}
})
//.processTransientWindow()
.process(new WindowHandler() {
public Trigger process(Window window) throws Exception {
result[0] = window;
return Trigger.DO_NOTHING;
}
})
.run();
return result[0];
}
});
In the second approach above, I still get "No window shown" error AND control never reaches to overriden "process" method.
I referred to http://www.uispec4j.org/reports/apidocs/org/uispec4j/interception/WindowInterceptor.html and recommended approach is to use init to capture modal dialog is init\process sequence.
To capture non-modal it is recommended that we should use following:
Window window = WindowInterceptor.run(panel.getButton("open").triggerClick());
But I have NO idea where and how I am supposed to call it..
From the first question I referred, mentioned above, we should be able to do that because the answer to it mentions launching jnlp application which is external application.
I tried with jre 6 update 0 and I can at least run test. In java update 37, from the third question I referred above, I get abstract method not implemented error.
What am I doing wrong? Any idea?
I am using latest UISpec4J package - version 2.4.
Thanks in advance,
-Neel.

I'm very new to UISpec4J but I'm guessing it needs to run in the same JVM in order to intercept and interact with the GUI components. When you start the exe file with exec, it will create a new process and a new, separate JVM. That'll not work, if I understand UISpec4J correctly.
Regarding the non-modal example, the documentation says "You would retrieve the window from within the test...", so in a setup method or in a test should work.

codenameone setURL with HTML file doesn't work on device

i'm re writing an app with codename one for other devices other android.
On the simulator everything is working fine, iv'e got some buttons that, when pressed, give access to an HTML page, the actual code for this is:
wifi.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev){
Form form = new Form("WiFi");
Container container = new Container();
WebBrowser wb = new WebBrowser();
container.addComponent(wb);
wb.setURL("jar:///assets/html/wifi.html");
System.out.println("url:"+wb.getURL());
Command backCommand = new Command("Back") {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev) {
wifi.getComponentForm().showBack();
}};
form.addCommand(backCommand);
form.setBackCommand(backCommand);
form.addComponent(container);
form.show();
}
});
When i first want to getURL() back, the string is empty; then when i want to build for an android device (Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.3) when i tap on the button it returns me nothing but a blank page.
I also tried with an http link like https://www.google.com, on simulator no problem, on device the usual blank page.
Then i tried modifying the position of the html file, putting it in src like for the image file (that works on device), but still nothing.
I've checked the developer guide and every example i could find, and everyone got no problem with this (and on the simulator me neither). Could anyone solve this?
Thank you :)

Place the file in the root of the src directory and point directly at it without the assets hierarchy for it to work properly across platforms.

I want to run the application in background of mobile without any GUI in mobile using J2ME?

I am developing the network application in which I want to run my J2ME MIDP application in background without any GUI so that is any way to construct the application is such manner.

try this
set your current Display to null. so there will not be any form or alert running on the screen. But however your code will be running in the background.
Display display = Display.getDisplay(this); // here 'this' points to Midlet
display.setCurrent(null);

it easy just have a code of line on any event for example in the click of button
Display.getDisplay (this).setCurrent (null);
and return back the control via
Display.getDisplay (this).setCurrent (mycanvas);

Yes this code works Good,
display = Display.getDisplay(this);
public void startApp()
{
display.setCurrent(form);
}
public void pauseApp()
{
}
public void hide()
{
Display.getDisplay (this).setCurrent (null);
}
This is will work like, make a button can after clicking it call hide Function, or you call this hide function in constructor so it will hide itself when app start, can you keep unHide statement in appStart() so if you Tab the program then it will unHide app again.
NOTE: you said you are working on Network app, but some mobile will turn off the Internet Connection, when the Mobile screen Turn Off. please check this. and If you found any solution It will be Good to share here.

keyReleases are simulating keyPresses in Linux (java Swing GUI)

I have a kiosk GUI application I'm working on and it requires me to block users from being able to Alt-Tab out of the fullscreen window. I posted a question about this a while back and a member helped me with some code, which worked perfectly under a Windows environment.
Here it is:
public class TabStopper implements Runnable {
private boolean isWorking = false;
private MenuFrame parent;
public TabStopper(MenuFrame parent) {
this.parent = parent;
new Thread(this, "TabStopper").start();
}
public void run() {
this.isWorking = true;
Robot robot;
try {
robot = new Robot();
while (isWorking) {
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
parent.requestFocus();
Thread.sleep(10);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void stop() {
this.isWorking = false;
}
public boolean isWorking() {
return this.isWorking;
}
}
However, I need this to be able to work in Linux as well. I made an executable jar from the source and brought it into Linux. Everything worked except the Alt and Tab keys were being constantly pressed. The buttons on my GUI were constantly being cycled and I was able to open a terminal (I set a backdoor in the application during testing in case something like this happens) which wouldn't let me type anything because Tab lists all the files in the current directory.
Could anyone tell me if there would be a fix that would work in both Linux and Windows environments. However, if I had to choose, I would go for Linux.
EDIT: I can also confirm that the Alt key is being "pressed". What's with this weird behaviour?

Forget grabbing Alt+Tab with hacks like this. It is a bad hack and it is error-prone. There are also so many other hotkey combinations.
For linux you have two options:
Use a minimal window manager or no window manager at all. For example, with fluxbox you can remove all key bindings alltogether and you can also make your application maximise by default, etc. You can empty the desktop menus such that the user gains no control even when your application crashes. This is a clean solution that really solves your problem instead of some parts of it. There are many ways to fiddle with the system other than Alt+Tab.
Grab input controls completely. This is what games do. For example libSDL does it for you and there are java wrappers for the functionality as well. This should also work as expected, except you use a window manager that does not allow input control grabbing per default (I don't know of any).