Hi Dilan,

Currently we don't maintain accounts in Android. We use our own IDP proxy
app to manage authentication + authorization. I believe for now we can
stick to that and AccountManager API is definitely a good choice for us to
improve our agents in a future release.

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chathura Dilan <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 for Catalog app. It was much needed app for AppM/EMM for long time.
> Currently we do not collect app meta data from uploaded apps. We need to
> have that functionalities in AppM too.
>
> For SSO in Android, can we look in to Android Account Manager[1]. I wonder
> whether we have this functionality to connect to our IS.
>
> [1] -
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accounts/AccountManager.html
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Kasun Dananjaya Delgolla <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have started implementing the $subject. Initially I'm working on simple
>> UIs to the following features,
>>
>>    - Login screen (this can be bypassed if the user is using EMM)
>>    - App listing (catalog  UI)
>>    - App detailed view
>>
>> As I have discussed with Dinusha, this app will be implemented in a way
>> that a user can use it standalone with just having AppM and also
>> integrating with WSO2 EMM (Using android agent as SSO). APPM team will be
>> providing APIs for the following,
>>
>>    - Retrieving app metadata list for a particular user + device type
>>    - Retrieving app update information (updated apps with the latest
>>    version would do)
>>    - Installation + Uninstallation + Update APIs
>>
>> Adding @Sumedha.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Dinusha Senanayaka <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kasun,
>>>
>>> On 11 Mar 2016 12:44, "Kasun Dananjaya Delgolla" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > $subject is required for mobile devices because we need to give end
>>> user the possibility of exploring the apps in the respective enterprise
>>> store and get permitted apps installed on his/her device. To achieve this,
>>> we thought of developing a catalog app (ex: play store app on Android). We
>>> initiate this from Android platform. Given below is the basic diagram to
>>> explain how it works.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ​
>>> > Flow :
>>> >
>>> > 1. App catalog app will let the user login either by enabling SSO with
>>> the agent app or enabling a separate login.
>>> > 2. App catalog application will communicate with the android agent app
>>> (or it can communicate directly with an APPM API to get the permitted app
>>> list to the device with the required meta data.
>>> > 3. Once a user click on an app and selects to install/update, catalog
>>> app sends a request to the agent app (via a secured AIDL interface or an
>>> Intent Service).
>>> > 4. Agent app then, performs the requested task by using its already
>>> existing application manager API.
>>> >
>>> > For this, we require an API to list all the apps permitted to install
>>> to a particular user from APPM. Please do let me know the feedback on this.
>>> >
>>> > @Dinusha - Do let me know the possibility of providing the above
>>> mentioned API.
>>>
>>> +1 for having catalog app. Yes, we could provide this API. Currenly we
>>> have secured AppM APIs with basic auth or the auth cookie. If the catalog
>>> app is authenticated user with SSO, it won't be a problem on calling to
>>> this API with the cookie.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dinusha.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > --
>>> > Kasun Dananjaya Delgolla
>>> >
>>> > Software Engineer
>>> > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>>> > lean.enterprise.middleware
>>> >
>>> > Tel:  +94 11 214 5345
>>> > Fax: +94 11 2145300
>>> > Mob: + 94 771 771 015
>>> > Blog: http://kddcodingparadise.blogspot.com
>>> > Linkedin: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/kasundananjaya
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kasun Dananjaya Delgolla
>>
>> Software Engineer
>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>> Tel:  +94 11 214 5345
>> Fax: +94 11 2145300
>> Mob: + 94 771 771 015
>> Blog: http://kddcodingparadise.blogspot.com
>> Linkedin: *http://lk.linkedin.com/in/kasundananjaya
>> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/kasundananjaya>*
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Architecture mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Chatura Dilan Perera
> *Senior Software Engineer** - WSO2 Inc.*
> www.dilan.me
>
> _______________________________________________
> Architecture mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture
>
>


-- 
Kasun Dananjaya Delgolla

Software Engineer
WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
lean.enterprise.middleware
Tel:  +94 11 214 5345
Fax: +94 11 2145300
Mob: + 94 771 771 015
Blog: http://kddcodingparadise.blogspot.com
Linkedin: *http://lk.linkedin.com/in/kasundananjaya
<http://lk.linkedin.com/in/kasundananjaya>*
_______________________________________________
Architecture mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture

Reply via email to