New features and enhancements

These are cumulative new feature summaries. If a release does not appear in this section, then there were no associated new features and enhancements.

  • Branding-related updates: As part of the branding updates, the "MobileIron Cloud" name has been changed to "Ivanti Neurons for MDM."

This guide documents the following new features and enhancements:

  • Prevention of overriding Microsoft restrictions: For the AppConnect wrapper, logic was added to remove actions from the context menu (for example, translation) that was added by Android. This feature was added to prevent overriding the copy/paste restriction in Microsoft products such as Edge, Outlook, Bing, etc.

  • Certified with Samsung OS 12: Ivanti has certified AppConnect for Android 9.4.0.0 with the Samsung OS 12 build provided by Samsung.

  • Support of Android Gradle plugin version 4.2: Starting from the Android Gradle tool plugin version 4.2+, the Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT2) resource compiler was replaced with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) resource compiler. All resource XML files now have obfuscated names and paths. For more information, see https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin#resource-compiler. See Determining the wrapping mode.

This guide documents the following new features and enhancements:

  • Support for home screen shortcuts: Upon tapping and holding the Secure Apps Manager (SAM) icon, a list displays shortcuts to the manifest URLs. For more information, see Generation 1 and Generation 2 wrapper limitations.
  • Support for Firebase Crashlytics: The following support items were added to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and Crashlytics:
    • Added -googleService flag that can be used with the wrap tool to allow the replacement of Firebase authentication data with one that is related to the wrapped package name project.

    • Added support of Firebase Cloud Messaging plugin with version 21.

      For more information, see AppConnect wrapping considerations and Uploading and wrapping an app.

  • Enhancements to Command line interface (CLI) support with the AppConnect wrapping tool: The help description was clarified in the help command in CLI mode of wrapping Android app using the AppConnect wrapping tool. For more information see Using the AppConnect for Android Wrapping Tool in CLI mode

  • Added new wrappers: For Android 12 and later versions, these TextToSpeech class methods were secured by AppConnect:
    • addEarcon (String, File)
    • addSpeech (String, File) from TextToSpeech class that was added in API 21

    For more information, see Generation 1 and Generation 2 support for commonly used app capabilities

  • Content changes for rebranding and distribution: Product documentation has been rebranded to align with Ivanti standards and is now available on the Ivanti documentation website.