Hi guys, a customer of us, has the problem, that in Android Launcher some Icons are missing. He can't see the clock, battery status and mobile reception status. I've tested it on a Samsung Galaxy S8 and had the sams issue. I tried to add the clock to hidden Apps, but because it's a Samsung App, there is no public app available. I've searched in the settings of Launcher, but nowhere is a button for ' enable clock' or somthing like that.
We can see the statuses when we enter the admin password, but we don't want, that every user has the admin password. Had anybody the same issue? Thank you!
I case someone else faces this issue...
I opened a support ticket and they provided the following response which resolved my issue:
Launcher 4.0 uses new native Android APIs for Google EMM Registered enrollments in the standard Android profile. These new APIs fall under the umbrella of Corporate-Owned Single-Use (COSU) mode. Some features are removed while using COSU mode, this is purposeful to be able to drastically increase the security of the Launcher application. Please see the drawbacks and benefits below, use this custom XML tag to skip COSU mode setup.
Impacted features include the removal of the Notification / Status Bar at the top of the screen and the Home & Recent Task soft keys at the bottom of the screen.
By using COSU mode (default), the level of security is greatly improved within the Application.
In DO mode, COSU will be configured by default. In case if you would like to use that functionality, you can disable COSU setup.
<characteristic type=' com.airwatch.android.androidwork.launcher' uuid=' 568bc89d-1df8-4ce9-a041-e5a24acdb7ec' >
<parm name=' SkipCosuSetup' value=' True' />
</characteristic>
Just add that XML as a custom setting to your launcher profile.
Lukas,
It changed with Launcher 4.1. This is the correct one. You can opt to allow leave the navigation bar command line in there or delete it. I personally left it so users can see and respond to the notifications and airplane mode...etc while still being blocked from accessing settings.
Beth
<characteristic type=' com.airwatch.android.androidwork.launcher' uuid=' 568bc89d-1df8-4ce9-a041-e5a24acdb7ec' >
<parm name=' SkipCosuSetup' value=' True' />
<parm name=' AllowStatusBar' value=' True' />
<parm name=' AllowNotificationBar' value=' True' />
</characteristic>
You're welcome Lior! 🙂 Here is the one for allowing power off (yep that is blocked too by default until you upgrade to console v1905).
<parm name=' AllowPowerOff' value=' True' />
This is the line that worked for us. We are using spectrakink phones, Android 8.1.0
<characteristic type="com.airwatch.android.androidwork.launcher" uuid="568bc89d-1df8-4ce9-a041-e5a24acdb7ec">
<parm name="SkipCosuSetup" value="True"/>
</characteristic>
This worked for me, thank you!