android - How to disable the Clear Data button in Application info of Manage application

Question

I am working on android 2.2, In a Application tab of android manifest provide the option of "Allow clear data" to set true or false. But after setting it to False, my application can't disable the button of Clear data in application info of Manage application. I am facing this problem when application contains database in Data/Data/packge-name/databases/.

I have to protect my application database from user.

Answer 1

Add android:manageSpaceActivity=".ActivityOfMyChoice" to the application tag of your Manifest like:

    <application android:label="MyApp" android:icon="@drawable/icon" 
                 android:manageSpaceActivity=".ActivityOfMyChoice">

Then instead of "Clear Data", there is a button for "Manage Space" which launches ActivityOfMyChoice

As far as I have been able to tell, this works 100% of the time.