Developing Android for Work apps

- [Instructor] Android for Work is Google's offering…for enterprise security.…It provides the distinction…between personal and enterprise apps and data…and leverages some of the Samsung Knox architecture…to deliver additional security.…There are three key features to improve security…for an enterprise device:…managed profiles, managed configurations,…and enforcement of single-purpose devices.…Managed profiles were introduced in Android 5.0 Lollipop.…

That's API 21.…Which allows profile settings to be managed…by an enterprise administrator.…This allows control of both the apps which can run…and the device features which can be used.…Managed profiles also, by default,…do not permit intents to cross profile boundaries,…and any attempt to do so will cause the activity to fail.…Apps strict check whether an intent can be handled…using the Resolve Activity method,…and where required define explicit permissions…to enable intents to cross profiles.…

The managed profile is provisioned…by the device administrator.…Let's look at a snippet of code…