Open for Business: Android for Work Shows Up on Google Play
Google has published Android for Work, its BYOD app for older Android smartphones that allows users to carve out a secure space for their business apps.
The app, which arrived on Google Play on Thursday, adds impetus to Google’s plan to get more of the billion Android devices owned by consumers accepted by businesses as work devices.Much like BlackBerry Balance, Android for Work aims to ensure personal data never meets its work counterpart, despite living on the same device. While Samsung has offered that capability to its devices through Knox, it wasn’t available to other Android devices.
The Korean company helped Google deliver some key components of Android for Work, such as ‘work profiles’, which are native to Android 5.0 Lollipop thanks to its support for multi-user accounts. The Android for Work app is for older devices through to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to Android KitKat 4.4, which covers the vast majority of Android phones in use today.
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