Android - "set-device-owner" with non rooted device

Question

We have to create a kiosk mode android app. The app is ready, we need only to set kiosk mode.

We want to set the "set-device-owner" programmatically but our tablet is not rooted. We don't want use ADB because this can be hard to explain to our customer.

Is there another way to enable it?

Answer 1

You can use QR code provisioning to get device owner privilege.

After factory reset on the welcome screen, tap Welcome 6 times to enter QR code provisioning mode. Here you can scan your QR code that is generated using the following code to activate device owner.

{"android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_DEVICE_ADMIN_COMPONENT_NAME": "in.test.mdm/in.test.mdm.AdminReceiver", "android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_DEVICE_ADMIN_PACKAGE_CHECKSUM": "AVMYPJsNa1nCkf0jdWPEY7x_wnfYaIh1ouWuq10rYZY", "android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_DEVICE_ADMIN_PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION": " https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1XqplR-QKO_iUqdm6RAjAPeAAGwoI6uFj&export=download ", "android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_LEAVE_ALL_SYSTEM_APPS_ENABLED":true,"android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_SKIP_ENCRYPTION":true,"android.app.extra.PROVISIONING_ADMIN_EXTRAS_BUNDLE":{"test":"test" } }

You can generate a qr code by pasting the above text in any qr code generator site for example : https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/