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George Frost
Copper Contributor
Oct 03, 2018

Apps automatically unistalled - Android Enterprise

Hi,

 

We have Android Enterprise devices enrolled as per the Intune documentionation here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/android-kiosk-enroll

 

We have some apps delivered to the devices via the managed Google Play store, however we also have a need to sideload some other apps on the devices manually. These apps can't be published on the Play Store.

 

The problem is that once the sideloaded apps are installed, they seem to get deleted by the device policy (see attached)

 

Does anyone know if there's a way to be able to whitelist these sideloaded apps so they're not removed by policy? It seems like the only apps that can exist on the devices in this mode are apps that are installed via the managed Play Store.

 

Thanks

Intune
  • mgomez2024's avatar
    mgomez2024
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 06, 2024

    George Frost Was wondering if you guys managed to find a solution for this.

     

    I have sideloaded an app but it always gets deleted after some time. I'm using Intune to manage the devices wherein enrolling it to android enterprise is a pre-requisite for android devices to be enrolled successfully. With this, one of the default settings (mandatory settings) is that google protect should be turned on, but it is deleting the sideloaded applications.

  • CarlG2205's avatar
    CarlG2205
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 03, 2019

    HiGeorge Frost did you ever get a resolution to this or have any further information on it?

     

    I have a side-loaded app on an Intune Android Enterprise device and it gets wiped every time the Android Device Policy syncs. There doesn't appear to be a way around it. The app is currently supported in managed play store.

     

    Ive had this confirmed by Microsoft support and its out of their hands.

      • CarlG2205's avatar
        CarlG2205
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 04, 2019

        Hi George, thanks for getting back to me.

         

        I have tried this private LOB/iframe however unfortunately it doesnt work for me.

         

        Originally I signed up for a Google Developer account and did it the old way, however the apk failed to load as the apk's API level was too low -> 21 vs 28.

         

        I tried last week to add via private LOB in Intune but I get the error "upload an APK with a valid package name".

         

        I can't seem to work around this issue.

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