Ask for password before uninstalling application

Question

First of all, I have researched a lot about my issue, but I could not find a proper solution so I am posting my query here. Hope to get a better solution to the issue:

Answer 1

If this is a corporate requirement (if you want to block a regular user from uninstalling your app, no chance, thanks Google for protecting us from bad devs), you should create a device administrator application. This way, although the user still can delete the app, it's one extra step if you want to prevent accidental erasing.

Before deleting your app, if it's enabled as device admin, the user must first disable the app as administrator, and the app receives this broadcast.

In your XML, put

In the receiver, you have at least two methods worth noticing:

@Override
public CharSequence onDisableRequested(Context context, Intent intent) {
    …
}

@Override
public void onDisabled(Context context, Intent intent) {
    …
}

This way you know the user is potentially going to erase your app.

Complete guide for device administration is at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html