Add an Android app to the app list if BlackBerry UEM is not configured for Android Enterprise devices

  1. In the management console, on the menu bar, click Apps.
  2. Click The Add an app icon.
  3. Click Google Play.
  4. Click Open Google Play and search for the app that you want to add. You can then copy and paste information from Google Play in the following steps and also download icons and screen shots.
  5. In the App name field, type the app name.
  6. In the App description field, type a description for the app.
  7. To filter apps in the app list by category and to organize the apps into categories in the work apps list on users' devices, you can select a category for the app. In the Category drop-down list, do one of the following:
    Task Steps

    Select a category for the app

    In the drop-down list, select a category.

    Create a category for the app
    1. Type a name for the category. The new category will appear in the drop-down list with the "new category" label beside it
    2. Press Enter.
    3. Press Enter.
  8. In the App rating and review drop-down list, perform one of the following actions. When multiple versions of the app exist, the setting specified applies to all versions of the app.
    • If you want users to rate and provide reviews of apps and see all reviews submitted by other users in your environment, select Public mode.
    • If you want users to rate and provide reviews of apps only, select Private mode. Users cannot see reviews provided by other users. You can see reviews in the BlackBerry UEM management console.
    • If you don't want users to rate or provide reviews of apps or see reviews provided by other users, select Disabled.
  9. In the Vendor field, type the name of the app vendor.
  10. In the App icon field, click Browse. Locate and select an icon for the app. The supported formats are .png, .jpg, .jpeg, or .gif. Do not use Google Chrome to download the icon because an incompatible .webp image is downloaded.
  11. In the App web address from Google Play field, type the web address of the app in Google Play.
  12. To add screen shots of the app, click Add and browse to the screen shots. The supported image types are .jpg, .jpeg, .png, or .gif.
  13. In the Send to drop-down list, perform one of the following actions:
    • If you want the app to be sent to all Android devices, select All Android devices.
    • If you want the app to be sent to only Android devices that use Samsung Knox Workspace, select Only KNOX Workspace devices.
  14. Click Add.