App lock

[Lucy]

Being that my phone is NOT rooted and therefore CANNOT use any actions like "kill app".. how would i go about creating a flow to lock applications from executing? My original idea was to simply have a flow with trigger "app task started" then provoke the action "kill app" but again my phone is not rooted. Is it maybe possible to deny the app from ooening in the first place?

[Desmanto]

You can just restrict the app from running background. Android Oreo above should have that option, but depends on the ROM, the option can vary. Try to find it in the app info, application manager or permission manager.

To kill the app, the app itself should be in background. So if the app is running, you should use show homescreen first then kill app.

[Lucy]

Yeah i know android has these ootions but i was wanting to lock or unlock apps periodically depending on whom is on this device. To use androids settings in such a fashion proves tedious and long waiting times for packages to load.

[Desmanto]

The username logged in is the same, only the physical user is different right? You can set some kind of profile when you want to hand over to different user. And activate the flow when handed to A, B or C. Each will have blacklisted apps list. When A open the blacklisted app, the flow triggered and show homescreen, kill the app. That way, they can't never open the app properly. The app is still there, they simply can't launch it until usable state.