Branding for Android Devices
  • 28 Sep 2023
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Branding for Android Devices

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Article Summary

Organizations prefer to enforce a particular branding throughout the enterprise devices. Once your Android devices are enrolled in Scalefusion, you can use the Branding option to upload your wallpapers and then apply them to the devices. In this document, we will see how to create & apply a Branding configuration.

Before You Begin

  1. Login to Scalefusion Dashboard
  2. The device should be enrolled with Scalefusion
  3. Have a couple of wallpaper images and logos stored on your local computer.

Create a Branding

  1. Navigate to Device Profiles & Policies > Branding. Click on CREATE NEW BRAND.
  2. Enter a name for your Branding so that you can refer to it when required.
    Set as Default Brand: If you toggle this On, then this brand will be set as the default brand on all the enrolled devices.
    Lock Screen Message: Enter a message that will be visible when the device screen is locked. Custom fields can also be entered as part of the lock screen message. For example, $device.serial_no.
  3. Next, move to Androidtab. There are four sections under which the brand settings can be configured,
    1. Basic: Configure basic branding settings
    2. Advanced: Configure Advanced branding settings like changing app icon size, app icons' text color and more.
    3. OEM SDK: Configure Boot and shutdown animation settings for Lenovo and Samsung Knox devices
    4. Alert Sounds: Configure alert sounds when devices are buzzed, the message is broadcasted, or a workflow alert is sent.
      The settings you configure here are visible on the sample device on the left, giving a preview of how it will reflect on the device.

Basic

SettingDescription
Top Bar ColorUse this to select a color for the top bar on the device. To select a color, click on the link Change, which displays all the colors. Choose the one that you want to apply on the top bar.
Upload Logo

From here, you can do the following:

  • Upload Brand Logo: Maximum size should be 192 * 192
  • Upload Lock Screen Logo: The logo that should appear when the device screen is locked.
  • Show White Background: If this setting is checked, a white logo background is shown on the lock screen.

Click on the respective cards to select and upload a logo from your local computer.

Upload Wallpaper

Upload Home Screen Wallpaper: Choose and upload wallpaper for the device's home screen

  • Use the same for the Lock screen: Having checked on this setting, the same wallpaper (which has been used for the home screen) will appear on the Lock screen as well. This setting gets enabled on uploading the Home screen wallpaper.
  • Upload Lock Screen Wallpaper: If you want a different wallpaper for the device's Lock screen, upload it here. Note that this setting will get enabled once you deselect the above setting, that is, not choosing the same wallpaper (home screen) for the lock screen.

Click on the respective cards to select and upload wallpaper from your local computer.

Show Device NameToggle this to ON if you want the device name to be shown over the device
Use Native Status BarToggle on this setting to show the status bar of your device

Advanced

SettingDescription
Icon Size

Choose the size of the app icons from the following:

  • Default
  • Medium
  • Large
App Icon Text ColorChoose the color of text that is written on each app icon
App Icon Label ColorSelect the color of the label for the app icon
App Icon Label TransparencySet the transparency level of the app icon label. By default, it is set to 80
Hide App LabelHides the app labels (the names with which app icons are identified)
Hide App Label ShadowHides the shadow over the app labels
Browser Shortcut BrandingToggle this ON if you want Scalefusion's default branding on browser shortcuts
Transparent Top BarUse this setting to hide the top bar, which also hides the device name
App icons per Row

Allows you to select the number of icons that should be displayed in a row. You can choose from the following modes:

  • Landscape: Select the number of icons displayed in a row when the device is in landscape mode. This is applicable only to Tablets. You can select a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6.
  • Portrait: Select the number of icons displayed in a row when the device is in Portrait mode. A minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 can be selected.
Note that depending on screen resolution, the image might appear differently than represented on the Dashboard.

OEM SDK

Upload the animation files that will run when your device boots up or is being shut down.

Boot and Shutdown animation feature is available only to users subscribed to Enterprise Plan and configurable for Acer [Model - Acer one 8 t4-82l], Lenovo and Samsung Knox devices having Knox v2.6 or above

Lenovo & Acer

The boot and shutdown animation files should be in zip format

Samsung

Setting
Description
Bootup animation
Upload the custom animation that the admin wants to display during the device boot-up. Supports only qmg file format
Bootloop animation
Upload a QMG animation file that has to be displayed during the device boot loop.
Bootup animation sound

Upload a .ogg audio file that will be played when the device boots up.

Delay in bootup animation sound: You can also set the number of milliseconds to delay playing the boot-up animation sound. Choose a value between 0 and 2147483646

Shutdown animation
Upload a QMG animation file to be displayed during the device shutdown.
Shutdown animation sound
Upload a .ogg audio file that has to be played during the device shutdown.

Alert Sounds

Under this, you can upload sound files that will be played as alerts when users perform the following from Scalefusion Dashboard:

The size of the sound file should be up to 1MB and in .ogg format only
  • Buzz device(s)
  • Send a broadcast message
  • Send workflow alerts: The alert sound will be played on the following workflows:
    • GeoFence
    • DataUsage
    • Battery Compliance
    • Security Incident Compliance
  • Send Notification

   4.  Once you have reviewed your changes, click on the SAVE BRAND button to save the brand. Once the brand is saved, it will start appearing in the list of brands.

Publishing/Applying a Branding

  1. The next step is to apply the newly created brand to your devices. To do so, click on the Apply Brand option on the branding card,
  2. From the list, select the device profile(s) / Device(s) where you want to publish this brand. Once you have selected the profiles, click on APPLY.
  3. The Brand will be applied to the device.

Brand can also be applied to devices via Device Profile. To do so:

a. Navigate to Device Profiles & Policies > Device Profiles.

b. Select the Android device profile and edit it.

c. Go to Select Brand / App Order which displays all the brands created.

d. Here, you can select the brand and save the profile.

Other actions

The following actions can be performed over the Brands from the Dashboard:

From the Branding card

  • Delete
  • Set as Default Brand
  • Edit

Others

  1. Search and Filter Brands: Search by typing in the Brand name, which will filter the brands
  2. Change view: By default, the brands are shown in a comfortable view and can be changed to a Compact view by clicking on the three vertical dots on the top right next to the Create New Brand button

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