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AppConfig Community Announces Android Best Practices

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Today, the AppConfig Community announced standard configurations for developing enterprise-ready Android applications. The AppConfig Community’s mission is to establish a common approach for enterprise app configuration and security based on OS native standards. Working with Google, the AppConfig Community provides developers with a common standard for Android apps, simplifying enterprise app development and configuration for any enterprise mobility management (EMM) provider. The Android AppConfig Community best practices are available to all developers at no cost.

Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system, gives developers flexibility and freedom to develop enterprise apps that operate on smartphones and tablets across the globe. Android for Work provides organizations with a secure, flexible, and unified Android mobility platform combining devices, applications, management, and support. Now Android developers can implement AppConfig Community cross platform standards and best practices to enterprise apps.

“A standard app development process that works across EMM solutions is critical to the thousands of enterprises and users that rely on Dropbox Business every day,” said Billy Blau, Head of Technology Partnerships at Dropbox. “As one of the earliest proponents of the AppConfig Community, we’re glad there’s also a defined set of Android best practices. Standard configurations will help our customers simply and securely deploy Dropbox Business across mobile operating systems without the need for additional code and SDKs. This means businesses spend less time developing and more time keeping teams productive and data safe.”

The AppConfig Community best practices provide standard configurations for several common enterprise use cases, including:

  • App Configuration: Leveraging native Android for Work APIs, developers can auto-configure URLs, ports, email addresses and more to simplify the app setup process for end users and alleviate help desk and documentation burden caused by manual setup.
  • App Tunnel: Using per-app VPN, developers can seamlessly give users access to web services behind a corporate firewall.
  • Single Sign On: AppConfig Community specifies the best practice for an app developer to leverage open authentication standards and configurations using an EMM solution to facilitate a seamless single sign on experience.
  • Security Policies: Developers can use security policies that work across EMM vendors, including passcodes, document sharing, app backup, disable screen capture, remote app wiping and disable copy-paste.

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