Blocking a pull-down menu in Android
<p>We have an industrial app running on stock Samsung Android devices.   Because it's an industrial app we are trying to have it "take over" the device.   We've got this pretty well working by setting in the manifest</p>

<pre><code>      &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" /&gt;
      &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and by intercepting the Android "back" key via onBackPressed and doing nothing.</p>

<p>Our one remaining conundrum is that Samsung's UI layer, 'Touch Wiz', has a pull-down menu that the user can pull down over the top of our app and access other features from.    We're trying to disable that.</p>

<p>Is there anything we can intercept that the way we did the the back button to block that?  Any other way to block it?</p>

<p>(if someone suggests "rooting" the device, what could I do as root that would help here?)</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!!  </p>
