Hi everyone,
Apologies if this has been asked before, I have had a quick look but couldn't see an answer.
I work for a large company that has started to roll out android devices to allow users access to mail and internet access on the road. We have aplan with our network provider that gives us 500mb of data, which for the most part is sufficient.
We have had a couple of issues with users significantly exceeding this allowance and our network provider is unable to offer any help to block data over a certain threshold.
My plan is to install 3g watchdog and juice defender to allow the end users to monitor their 3g usage easily and then configure the apps to shut off data when 99% of the allowance has been used. This coupled with educating users should prevent further instances of the problem.
The trouble I have is that we will need to be installing these apps onto a lot of handsets over the next few months, I wondered if either of the following were possible:
1. Obtaining the APK's and side-loading them onto the handsets. As the apps are free I assume I am not breaking any agreement clauses. Any ideas of how/where to obtain the APK's please?
2. Is it possible to configure the devices with a generic account that I can use to access the market, install the apps then remove the google account from the phone. I seem to think this is not possible.
The devices will not be rooted and I don't want to be creating google accounts for each end user as they may already have one etc.
Thanks in advance for any help people are able to give.
Apologies if this has been asked before, I have had a quick look but couldn't see an answer.
I work for a large company that has started to roll out android devices to allow users access to mail and internet access on the road. We have aplan with our network provider that gives us 500mb of data, which for the most part is sufficient.
We have had a couple of issues with users significantly exceeding this allowance and our network provider is unable to offer any help to block data over a certain threshold.
My plan is to install 3g watchdog and juice defender to allow the end users to monitor their 3g usage easily and then configure the apps to shut off data when 99% of the allowance has been used. This coupled with educating users should prevent further instances of the problem.
The trouble I have is that we will need to be installing these apps onto a lot of handsets over the next few months, I wondered if either of the following were possible:
1. Obtaining the APK's and side-loading them onto the handsets. As the apps are free I assume I am not breaking any agreement clauses. Any ideas of how/where to obtain the APK's please?
2. Is it possible to configure the devices with a generic account that I can use to access the market, install the apps then remove the google account from the phone. I seem to think this is not possible.
The devices will not be rooted and I don't want to be creating google accounts for each end user as they may already have one etc.
Thanks in advance for any help people are able to give.