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Android 6 Essentials

By : Yossi Elkrief
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Android 6 Essentials

By: Yossi Elkrief

Overview of this book

Android 6 is the latest and greatest version of the Android operating system, and comes packed with cutting edge new features for you to harness for the benefit of building better applications. This step-by-step guide will take you through the basics of the Android Marshmallow permissions model and beyond into other crucial areas such as the Audio,Video,Camera API and Android’s at work features. Learn how to create, deploy, and manage Android applications with Marshmallow’s API and the latest functionalities. The combination of instructions and real-world examples will make your application deployment and testing a breeze.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android 6 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Android for Work

Most of you know that Android devices have a huge market share percentage worldwide, and more and more businesses are following the BYOD (short for Bring Your Own Device) policy. This is done with the help of Android for Work, a special program for companies where several added features in the Android platform allow better mobile device management, administration, and integration within the company.

When dealing with enterprises or even small-sized and medium-sized businesses, you need to follow specific guidelines and harness the Android API to your benefit. You can read more about Android for Work at:

http://developer.android.com/training/enterprise/index.html

Android Marshmallow has made a few changes to the Android for Work program, where a lot of the changes were made for better and easier usage for developers as well as work users.

In this chapter, we will cover the Android Marshmallow changes that reflect or are related directly to Android for Work:

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