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    <blockquote> <p>First and foremost I want to ensure that users cannot install any apps that they want, and I want to ensure that users cannot modify the settings of the device.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is impossible, except by creating custom firmware.</p> <blockquote> <p>I'd also like to have some control over which apps are actually able to be run (for instance, I don't the camera to be able to be run at all times).</p> </blockquote> <p>Except that this runs counter to:</p> <blockquote> <p>Finally, I'd like some logging to be available to me, for instance I'd like to be able to keep track of the websites visited on the device.</p> </blockquote> <p>If you are letting them use a browser, then they can arrange to run any application they want on the device. And, BTW, the logging you want is impossible except by creating custom firmware or writing your own Web browser.</p> <blockquote> <p>I know there are apps out there that do these sort of things</p> </blockquote> <p>Name any.</p> <blockquote> <p>is something like this possible (either logging or locking)</p> </blockquote> <p>It is all possible if you create your own custom rendition of the Android OS and put it on either your own custom-crafted hardware or find ways to load it on existing hardware.</p> <p>The closest thing to this you can do with just the Android SDK, as @Aaron C notes, is create your own custom home screen. From here, you control what apps the user can launch from this screen (but, again, a Web page could bypass this, as will anything that raises a <code>Notification</code>). By setting your app as the home screen, you have some limited control over user behavior. But, a safe-mode reboot of the device will restore the firmware's own home screen, let alone all the other holes that I mentioned. And none of this achieves your logging functionality.</p> <p>Android is designed explicitly to empower the person who holds the device. Enterprises and malware authors have the same objective: take control from the user and give that control to somebody else. Android defends users against malware authors, which limits enterprise flexibility.</p> <p>Eventually, businesses will crop up to help firms like yours create OS remixes with capabilities like the ones you seek -- this is the logical outgrowth of projects like CyanogenMod.</p>
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    1. COApp locking app search: https://market.android.com/search?q=app+lock&so=1&c=apps , Parental control apps: https://market.android.com/search?q=parental+control&so=1&c=apps. I disagree with your "this runs counter to" statement, I specified that I'd like to control which apps are able to be run not that I'd like to lock all apps. Thanks for the info
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    2. CO@FuZion: AFAIK, none of those do what you cite in your question.
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    3. CO@FuZion: My point with "this runs counter to" is that if you allow access to the Web, you simultaneously allow access to all apps on the device. It is possible to craft a Web page that can launch an on-device app.
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