Setting chrome policies on Android

[Kelvin Poon]

Hi,

I am developing an android app that can set chrome policies on Android.

Does anyone know where on disk are chrome policies stored on Android?

Kelvin

[Martin Kosiba]

Hi Kevin,

  What kind of policies? You mean stuff like proxy configuration?

  The Android security model disallows one app from reading/writing another app's data (which is what it sounds like you're trying to do). Also, even if that were possible directly messing with configuration files sounds like a terrible idea - how are you going to deal with different versions or Chrome and your app writing at the same time?

  It sounds like this would need to be something Chrome itself exposes support for (perhaps by means of an Intent or Binder) that your app can invoke/use to deliver the functionality you want.

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[Anton Vayvod]

Hi Kelvin,

AFAIK the right way to set policies to an Android app from another app is using the new setApplicationRestrictions API [1]

The detailed list of policies Chrome supports on Android is here [2]

Hope this helps,

Anton.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html#setApplicationRestrictions(android.content.ComponentName, java.lang.String, android.os.Bundle)

[3] http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

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[Bernhard Bauer]

Also, note that the app needs to be a profile or device owner in order to be allowed to set policies. (The Google Device Policy app would be one such example).

Bernhard.