Android dedicated devices managed home screen and system apps

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Android enterprise dedicated devices with the Microsoft Managed Homescreen app are a conenient way to provide devices with restricted functionality and customized look and feel to end users. Because the Managed Homescreen app acts as an overlay to the underlying Android certain prompts and features are not enabled by default unless you allow-list them by deploying the corresponding Android System App and add the app to the kiosk device restrictions.

System Apps
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System apps can be added as separate app type within MEM:

It is important to deploy the desired system apps as required to your devices and also adding them within the kiosk configuration:

List of commonly used System apps for Samsung devices
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Based on a recent project where we had Samsung devices in place we allow-listed the following system apps within the kiosk configuration:

Description	App Bundle ID
USB File Transfer Prompt Android Version < 12	`com.samsung.android.MtpApplication`
USB File Transfer Prompt Android Version >= 12	`com.android.mtp`
Android System UI (used for a variety of prompts)	`com.android.systemui`
Service Mode App (USB prompts)	`com.sec.android.app.servicemodeapp`
Knox license prompts	`com.samsung.android.knox.pushmanager`
Samsung Android update prompts	`com.wssyncmldm`
Knox smdms	`com.sec.enterprise.knox.cloudmdm.smdms`
Knox container core	`com.samsung.android.knox.containercore`
Knox attestation	`com.sec.enterprise.knox.attestation`
Keyboard changes	`com.samsung.android.honeyboard`

An indicator to decide wheter you need to add an app to the list is always when you can see the prompts outside of the managed homescreen app after leaving the kiosk mode. {: .notice–info}

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Android dedicated devices managed home screen and system apps

System Apps #

List of commonly used System apps for Samsung devices #

System Apps
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List of commonly used System apps for Samsung devices
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