Kiosk mode in Android

After searching for this for a while I've come up with a good solution. This only works on rooted devices though, but I guess if it's just for this one app then rooting it shouldn't be a problem.

• Make your application the launcher by adding

  <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" /> 
  

  to your intent-filter

• Make sure your app collapses the toolbar so you cannot reach the notification bar see How to disable status bar / notification bar on android programmatically? or http://blog.vogella.com/2011/02/28/android-hidding-the-status-and-title-bar/

• Then to stop any other programs from opening by mistake use an Accessibility Service to check for Window State Changed, compare the package to a white or black list and use ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses to kill if it shouldn't run.

Also check out http://thebitplague.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/kiosk-mode-on-the-nexus-7/ for another way