Leveraging the application programming interface and product development services, Android has come a long way to building the world’s widest device ecosystem. From a company’s IT personnel, corporate employees, or management, android services have offered flexibility and security to users.
With a rising demand in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), whether at the office or work from home and access corporate data from personal devices, google proliferated in the android device domain. This accounts for a seamless yet highly secure platform for data sharing.
Forging ahead in the line of facilitating business solutions, the android enterprise or as formerly remembered by Android for Work enables ease of using android devices and apps at the workplace. This advancement in android deploys EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) which enhances corporate information security on smartphones.
These enterprise software solutions from android offer the OEMs a platform to enhance employee productivity through remote application configuration. It amalgamates a myriad of technologies for ease of usage and utilizes every benefit of the android enterprise features.
Here are the Android Enterprise features listed with the method of using them:
- Device Provisioning
Device provisioning or setting up of a device by the enterprise includes installing the android device policy. Once the provisioning is successfully done, the API binds the device to the enterprise. This feature involves a series of steps for the enterprise to perform:
- Provisioning the first-work profile after installing the android device policy from google play.
- Provisioning the identifier’s device by entering “afw” in the setup wizard for a fully managed device.
- NFC device provisioning
- QR Code device provisioning by IT for a dedicated device
- IT to perform Zero-touch enrolment for devices purchased from an authorized reseller and manage it through the EMM console.
- IT can provide a device as an enterprise work profile with the help of zero-touch enrolment or QR code. The device’s camera, screen capture can be deactivated, set the allow or block list, and compliance actions for the workplace device.
- Device Security
- Device Security challenge by setting a Pin, Password, or Pattern.
- The work Security challenge for data and apps, different from the device security challenges.
- Advanced Passcode management on devices for enhanced safety.
- Smart lock management
- Remote Wipe and lock by using the EMM console
- Compliance enforcement automatically restricts the use of work data if the device does not adhere to the security policies.
- Specified security policies to be enforced as default.
- SafetyNet support turned to default.
- Verify apps enforcement turned to ON to protect the device against any harmful installation of software
- Direct boot support by default
- Hardware security management for protection against data loss. It can be done by blocking users from mounting any external media, sharing data using NFC, and transferring official files over USB.
- Enterprise security logging
- Account and App Management
- Managed google play account enterprise enrolment for work profile and dedicated device
- Managed google play account provisioning by default
- Managed google play device account provisioning by default
- Silent app distribution to install, update and uninstall work apps using API.
- Configuration management to view and manage silent configurations for any application.
- Programmatic app approval within the EMM console.
- Basic store layout management through EMM console.
- Uploading Google-hosted private app management through EMM
- EMM to strictly adhere to the API usage requirements
- Web App management in the EMM console
- Management of Google Play Account lifecycle by default.
- Application track management by IT admins.
- Device Management
- Management of Runtime permission policy
- Management of Runtime permission grants state
- Managing WiFi configuration
- Managing WiFi security
- Advanced WiFi management
- Account management
- Certificate management
- Delegated Certificate management
- Advanced VPN management
- IME management
- Accessibility services management
- Managing location sharing
- Managing factory reset protection
- Advanced app control
- Screen capture management
- Camera disable
- Reboot device
- Managing system Radio and Audio
- Managing system clock
- Advanced dedicated device features
- Device Usability
- Managed provisioning customization
- Lock screen messages
- Managing policy transparency
- System update policy
- Managing lock task mode
- Managing keyguard feature
- Managing work profile policy transparency
- Connected app support