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I am working on a custom EMM MDM solution. I did a lot of study about it and I came across these two APIs.

  • Android Management API
  • Google EMM API

Now I have few questions about these two APIs

  1. I did about these two APIs individually but i don't why i find these APIs similar in functionality I just want to know the main difference between of both these APIs or advantage and disadvantage of both APIs.
  2. While provisioning a device with android management API, In DPC identifier method we write afw#setup when prompted to sign in which downloads Android Device Policy application but other MDMs for example In tiny MDM when user is going to enroll device, he writes afw#tinymdm when prompted to sign in which downloads their own application. Now what i need to do develop my own application and i write a code which downloads my app and user gets enrolled
  3. What is actually NFC? In the documentation they wrote there is an admin device and u need to bump other device with admin device to enroll device. I did same but nothing happens.
  4. How can i share the files and contacts with all enrolled devices in android management API
  5. How can i track the physical location of device in android management API

I eagerly wants the answer of these questions that I found nowhere yet.

Vadim Kotov
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  1. Google is no longer accepting new registrations for the Play EMM API. It is mentioned on all EMM related webpages, this is done so that developers can start using the latest Android Management API.

  2. afw#setup is the identifier for Android Management API, it will download the Android Device Policy and continue to setup. afw#name are identifiers of EMMs which were built on Play EMM APIs and have their own DPC - Device Policy Controller and now Google doesn't accept new identifiers.

  3. NFC enrollment is a process to provision a device. Link

Would suggest to perform more research on Android Management API and also understand the options better.

Sudhu
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    I did a lot of research on android managment api...but now i want to have my own Device Policy Controller – Qaiss Aria May 26 '20 at 13:16
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  1. How can i share the files and contacts with all enrolled devices in android managment API
  • There is currently no way to achieve this using Android Management API. However, you are free to use third-party applications to achieve this.
  1. How can i track the physical location of device in android management API
  • This has been answered here.
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