androidmdmsoti

How to send information from android app to SOTI MobiControl?

I have a setup with an android device managed by the MDM Soti / MobiControl.
I want to use a script to roll out an app update.

This are the steps:

  1. MDM calls App with 

    sendintent -b "intent:#Intent;action=com.myapp.syncdata;end“

  2. App does a sync with the Webservice

  3. App notifies MDM that it finished syncing
  4. MDM uninstalls the old App
  5. MDM installs the new App

With the soti script command in #1 and a BroadcastReceiver in my Android App I can already trigger sync events. But I wonder how can I inform the MDM that the synchronisation is finished?
How can I do step 3?

Solution

  • What we finally did is this:

    1. MDM calls App with 

      sendintent -b "intent:#Intent;action=com.myapp.syncdata;end“

    2. App does a sync with the Webservice.

    3. App writes an upload.ini file to the sdcard with this content:

      [upload]
upload=1

    4. In MobiControl we added a custom data field, monitoring the existence and value of upload=1 inside the upload.ini. All devices with upload=1 are moved into a virtual group.

    5.+6. On all devices in the virtual group we start a update-script wich uninstalls the old App, installs the new App and deletes the upload.ini

    Thanks again to the SOTI support for their help!

    NOTE: This only works on "Android+" devices. Android+ means SOTI has a special cooperation with the manufacturers, like with Samsung.