Programmatically forward-lock an Android APK

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Published on 2010-04-26T05:33:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 5:43 UTC
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Doing a bit of advance research, and am stuck on the point summarized in the title. Namely, is there any way to forward-lock an APK installed programmatically, from another app? I've not come across anything beyond a hint in the following post: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/e39941389d4a4cf8

I can't see anything in the docs for PackageManager about forward- locking, but I readily confess that this is an unfamiliar area of the SDK for me.

[Cross-posted with the Android-Developers Google group]

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