Intune provides us two Android management Solution-
Android device admin is legacy management solution.
- In 2010, Google released Android 2.2 (Froyo) with the ability to support the management of mobile devices via Android Device Administrator.
- In the decade since, remote work rose by 400%1, along with the overall needs of the enterprise; especially as they relate to mobile device usage. Consider:
- In 2010, less than 60% of employees brought personal phones and tablets to work. Today, nearly 70% of workers utilize Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in some way.
- It took just three years (2011 to 2014) for companies embracing BYOD to grow from 25% to 90%.
- In 2010, approximately nine billion apps were downloaded worldwide. In 2011, it jumped to 29 billion. In 2019, over 200 billion apps were downloaded globally.
As enterprise mobility became more complex, the Android Device Admin application programming interface (API) was being asked to do more than it could.
Android Enterprise supports far more deployment scenarios and provides better security, privacy and configuration options on Android devices.
The launch of Android 5 (Lollipop) in 2014 introduced Android Enterprise with Fully Managed Device (Device Owner) and Work Profile (Profile Owner) modes. Since then, Device Admin has been considered legacy Android Management.8
Android Enterprise supports the separation of data in a BYOD scenario.
Android Enterprise features enhanced app management through Managed Google Play, which was not available in Device Admin.
Device Admin partially supports VPN whereas Android Enterprise offers full-blown support with its configuration abilities via Managed Configs.