I am soon replacing my ancient Minix Neo G4 with the Shield, and am excited. But one thing I could never get satisfactorily working on the G4 was a device lock. There was no lockscreen option in the ROM on the Minix, and every possible app I tried was ineffective or worse.
On the Shield, can you set a PIN? Or are there now apps available that lock the device in a sensible way? My compromise for the Minix was (after a long search) using Locx for just select apps.
Thanks.
As some of you may know, the latest update to the Android TV Launcher disabled the ability to set other launchers as default. Up until this update I used Google Now Launcher on my SHIELD because it works well with a d-pad and of course, lets you launch apps that aren't specifically optimized as Leanback apps. Not wanting to be forced into using something by Google, I decided to take things into my own hands.
I wrote an app that lets you run launchers directly from the Android TV interface. It adds a "Home Screen" tile that, when selected, will load the launcher of your choice once it has been sideloaded onto the device. It's unimaginatively titled "Home Screen Launcher" because yo dawg, I put a launcher in your launcher so that you can launch while you launch.
Wanted to share this because I know there are a few people in this sub that are also affected by this, and while it's not a perfect solution to the problem, works well enough for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farmerbb.launcherhack