Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ...
by beowulfey on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:03AM
(#25968410)
that’s a lot of tooling to build for a single application—plus not everyone is tech savvy and installing from non-standard locations requires more user support
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ...
by exikyut on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:17AM
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A 100K-sized company is going to have a BYOD or corporate device issuance program with tie-in to MDM, which effectively functions as a private appstore (the DPC (device policy controller) (itself an app) can silently install apps (as in, download APK from $anywhere, hand to PackageManager) without confirmation, etc).
MDM infra is big bu$ine$$, but DPCs are quite simple to write.
(Psst. They also let you read CPU usage on Android 7+ (sadly not per task, but at least with per-core granularity). The catch? Installing a DPC requires a factory reset. xD)
Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ...
by e12e on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:37AM
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> A 100K-sized company is going to have a BYOD or corporate device issuance program
Some will, some might run a more open org, with a lot of rather independent contractors, focusing on providing services on standard platforms (email, chat, wiki, bugtracker etc).