With the omnipresence of mobile devices, increasing number of employees are bringing their devices to work, and are demanding that corporate data be accessible on their personal or enterprise mobile device. This is a great convenience but is also a challenge of increasing magnitude. The cost of corporate data loss due to a compromised or lost device is huge.
There are many challenges that the IT department faces with the proliferation of mobile devices in the workforce. The first challenge is the wide array of mobile devices with different form factors and capabilities. The second challenge is to get employees on board and accept enterprise control on specific applications and parts of their device. The third challenge is the ongoing support of device administration.
This chapter is focused on device administration of an Android device. If you are not developing applications for the enterprise, you may safely skip this chapter and move on to the next chapter...