Add a private app to the app list for Android Enterprise devices using the management console

Use these instructions to add internal apps as a private app on Google Play to deploy to Android Enterprise devices.

In the app list, private apps display the The Google private app icon symbol and your Android Enterprise Organization Name is in the Vendor field.

If you have an on-premises BlackBerry UEM environment, Specify the shared network location for storing internal apps.
  1. In the management console, on the menu bar, click Apps.
  2. Click The Add an app icon.
  3. Click Google Play.
  4. In the left navigation menu, click Private apps.
  5. Click The Add an app icon.
  6. In the Title field, type the text that will display on the device.
  7. Click Upload APK, navigate to the app that you want to add, and click Open.
  8. Click Create.
    The web app is created in Google Play and the app appears on the Private apps tab. Google Play takes several minutes to upload and verify the .apk file and notify UEM that the app is ready. When UEM receives the .apk file, it adds the app to the app list automatically.
  9. In the App description field, type a description for the app.
  10. 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.
  11. If you want the app to update automatically on Android Enterprise devices, select Automatically update app on Android Enterprise devices when update available.
  12. For apps that support configuration settings, an App configuration table is displayed. If you want to create an app configuration, complete the following steps:
    1. Click The Add icon to add an app configuration.
    2. Type a name for the app configuration and specify the configuration settings to use.
    3. Click Save.
    4. If necessary, use the arrows to move the profiles up or down the ranking. When an app is assigned more than once with different app configurations, the app configuration with the higher rank applies.
  13. 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:
    TaskSteps

    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.
  14. 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 only rate and provide reviews of apps, select Private mode. Users cannot see reviews provided by other users. You can see reviews in the 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.
  15. Click Add.
If the app is a BlackBerry Dynamics app, create a BlackBerry Dynamics app entitlement for the app and assign both the app and the entitlement to users. For more information, see Add an internal BlackBerry Dynamics app entitlement.