A lock screen is a user interface element used by various operating systems. They regulate immediate access to a device by requiring that the user perform a certain action in order to receive access: such as entering a password, using a certain button combination, or by performing a certain gesture using a device's touchscreen.
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Access application while in lock screen in iOS
Is there any way to detect the shake when the application is in back ground in iOS ? Actually in my application i need access my application when the device is in lock screen to call some web services. Is there any way to do this to aces my…

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How to display emergency contact on iPhone lock screen?
I want to display emergency contact on lock screen of iPhone.
I've found one link to an app Launch emergency App/Do emergency call without screen-unlocking the iPhone but it is saying that apple will not approve this,
I saw some other applications…

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Android - Launching activity from notification while screen is locked causes crash
THERE ARE NO ERRORS IN MY LOGCAT
I have my notification being launched from a timer which then sets off a broadcastreciever that triggers my notification. This all works fine and when a user unlocks the screen and then presses the notification it…

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How to launch an app when a 5 touch gesture occures
Does any one have any suggestions on how to launch an app when the device senses a 5 touch gesture on either the home or locked screen? I am working on building an app that will sense whenever a home screen or lock screen is touched by 5 touches at…
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Change screen lock method
Is there a way to programmatically change the phones screen lock method? For example, changing it to display a pattern, a pin, swipe unlock or none at all.
For example, think of a widget that lets the user toggle between swipe to unlock and pattern…
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How do you access the user's phone background?
There isn’t really much to this question, but is it somehow possible to programmatically set the user's lock screen background?
Or maybe add a photo to the image folder a user has chosen, for their "Photo shuffle lock screen widget"?
Hope this makes…

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Is it possible to add a second correct answer to the lockscreen?
My boss has requested me of making a solution to the company's android mobile phones to secure our data.
The problem is that I am a Python programmer, and have not used the Java language for some time, my other problem is, that I don't think what he…

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Change music in lockscreen
Is it possible for my app to skip or pause the music that is currently being played while the device (iPhone) is locked (for example after a given preset time)?

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How to wake up system directly to desktop view in Windows 8.1?
Scenario:
Task Scheduler - puts a system to a sleep
Task Scheduler - wakes the
system up
Task Scheduler - launches another program but it is vital
that it was
Problem:
During the wake up procedure, a system state stops at the window namely "Lock…

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How to disable home button like 'cover' app?
As far as I know, there is no way to disable 'Home button' in android system.
But recently, I found a locker 'cover'.
Just install it, but the home button does not work.
How is this possible?

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How would you send a notification to an iPhone lock screen?
How would you send a notification to the lock screen of an iPhone from an app when something occurs?

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How to customize Notification in Lock screen swift
I see the Telegram application uses the first letter of the contact name to replace the Logo of the app.
How can I do that?
I try to search but not found

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how to design a lockscreen using swift?
Is it possible to customize the lock screen in iOS at all ? I have looked up sources like git and stack-overflow with little to no response.
My project is to build a customized lock screen app. Any guidance in the right path would be greatly…

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How can i use the lock screen in my app
I need a code to use the lock screen instead of the system so that when i enter a specific password the device make the functionality that i codded it

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make android Lock Screen and home screen
I want to make android lock screen but dont know how to implement and start.
Please give me some lock screen example(not pattern n password lock) and instruction to make lock screen.
and also give me code to apply own made lock screen as a default…

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