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DevicePolicyManager.GetPasswordHistoryLength(ComponentName) Method

Definition

Retrieve the current password history length for a particular admin or all admins that set restrictions on this user and its participating profiles.

[Android.Runtime.Register("getPasswordHistoryLength", "(Landroid/content/ComponentName;)I", "GetGetPasswordHistoryLength_Landroid_content_ComponentName_Handler")]
public virtual int GetPasswordHistoryLength (Android.Content.ComponentName? admin);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("getPasswordHistoryLength", "(Landroid/content/ComponentName;)I", "GetGetPasswordHistoryLength_Landroid_content_ComponentName_Handler")>]
abstract member GetPasswordHistoryLength : Android.Content.ComponentName -> int
override this.GetPasswordHistoryLength : Android.Content.ComponentName -> int

Parameters

admin
ComponentName

The name of the admin component to check, or null to aggregate all admins.

Returns

The length of the password history

Attributes

Remarks

Retrieve the current password history length for a particular admin or all admins that set restrictions on this user and its participating profiles. Restrictions on profiles that have a separate challenge are not taken into account.

This method can be called on the DevicePolicyManager instance returned by #getParentProfileInstance(ComponentName) in order to retrieve restrictions on the parent profile.

On devices not supporting PackageManager#FEATURE_SECURE_LOCK_SCREEN feature, the password history length is always 0.

Java documentation for android.app.admin.DevicePolicyManager.getPasswordHistoryLength(android.content.ComponentName).

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Applies to