I am building an operating system for children; the app is a launcher. From this app, children are allowed to use 3rd party apps, except requirements are that the ads should be blocked because some ads are inappropriate for our 3-5 year old targeted audience. Without actually owning these 3rd party apps, I have not thought of too many options for accomplishing this. The only thing I could think of is to turn off network connection while using these apps. Without a network connection, these 3rd party apps will not be able to display their ads. However, I see a huge drawback to this solution. Many (dare I say most) apps are meant to work with an active network connection, and without one these apps do not function.
Can you think of a better way of doing this? Is there a library that exists that I do not know of, or method for doing this that you can enlighten me on?
Thank you in advance.
I have found possible solution to this for other developers building operating systems for children. Adblockplusandroid is pretty useful, there is no root required.
https://github.com/adblockplus/adblockplusandroid
Additionally, there are some ways of changing/setting Proxy using Wificonfiguration like
WifiConfiguration config = new WifiConfiguration(configuration);
config.ipAssignment = WifiConfiguration.IpAssignment.UNASSIGNED;
config.proxySettings = WifiConfiguration.ProxySettings.STATIC;
config.linkProperties.clear();
config.linkProperties.setHttpProxy(new ProxyProperties("127.0.0.1", port, ""));
127.0.0.1 targets ads.