Is there an app so I can monitor kid's android tablet usage?

[fridaypassion]

We have a 4 year old girl that likes to watch little youtube videos on the android tablet we have. She watches things like the usual Frozen related things and videos other kids put up with little stories with toys etc

We just want to make sure she's not able to access anything worse than this and it would be good to have an app that we can see what's on the android tablet screen I dont know if this is possible?

[marshalla]

There seem to be some VNC servers available for Android. One of those +a VNC client on your monitoring machine should do the job.

[TurricanII]

It is tough to block everything you want. I suggest looking at opendns for filtering dodgy sites at your modem. At four years old and now at six I do not let my boy on my tablet without an adult in the same room to listen in and check on him. I would block YouTube full stop because despite the good stuff there are lots of seemingly friendly vids with dodgy dubbing. Besides, many of the app vendors host their own vids that still work without YouTube.

[98elise]

TurricanII said:

It is tough to block everything you want. I suggest looking at opendns for filtering dodgy sites at your modem. At four years old and now at six I do not let my boy on my tablet without an adult in the same room to listen in and check on him. I would block YouTube full stop because despite the good stuff there are lots of seemingly friendly vids with dodgy dubbing. Besides, many of the app vendors host their own vids that still work without YouTube.

I've found blocking at the router (which is what you probably mean) doesn't work. I had key words and specific site blocks on and some sites can still be accessed perfectly well.

[ZesPak]

98elise said:

I've found blocking at the router (which is what you probably mean) doesn't work. I had key words and specific site blocks on and some sites can still be accessed perfectly well.

I'm guessing if it's HTTPS it just goes trough?

[marshalla]

ZesPak said:

I'm guessing if it's HTTPS it just goes trough?

It shouldn't. It still needs to do a DNS lookup and have an IP address for HTTPS. The router should block all traffic to the listed domains & addresses.

[TurricanII]

98elise said:

I've found blocking at the router (which is what you probably mean) doesn't work. I had key words and specific site blocks on and some sites can still be accessed perfectly well.

No, I meant opendns AND keywords. Look opendns up, it is free!