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AMAPI release notes for May were dropped last week, but nothing had hit the API so I opted to hold off on talking about it.
Until today 😁
As of this afternoon we have the following changes to AMAPI, including a couple of things referenced at the summit 👀
userControlSettings
Allows end users to undertake actions such as force-stopping or clearing app data. This is a per-app setting.
In testing the experience was a little mixed. I with user control disabled I was still able to go into app info > storage and clear cache, but as the GIF shows it's definitely doing something.
PERSONAL_USAGE_DISALLOWED_USERLESS
Allowing personal use has been pretty binary from the start, however with BTE - or Customer sign-up, as Google will be referring to it publicly, some new options will be introduced.
I've referenced in What's new (so far) for enterprise in Android 15 (linked below) the inclusion of another allowPersonalUsage option, DEDICATED_DEVICE which will also allow provisioning customisation for dedicated devices, but that's not available to us just yet..
You'll be pleased (maybe?) to know setting PERSONAL_USAGE_DISALLOWED_USERLESS today has no impact on provisioning, at least ahead of BTE going live-live, it's more of a flag to tell AMAPI the device enrolling is userless - a kiosk or dedicated device with no capacity for personal use or corporate authentication, in fact I recorded the provisioning process in the following (low quality) GIF, sped up for convenience:
Finally,
The get and list methods for enrollmentTokens now return populated value, qrCode, and allowPersonalUsage fields.
I don't see this happening, at least not yet via the API explorer. This'll be great when it does happen though; I'll gladly sacrifice a few additional calls to the API to fetch enrolment token details rather than fuss over storing and managing them within a database I have to maintain, so I'm happy with that 😁
#androidenterprise