If you're using the Lockdown you might be able to launch directly to the URL in a webview via the Browser:// URI. I haven't used that in a while but I'm fairly certain it opens a kiosk WebView without a URL bar to whatever website you direct it to. If Chrome is the default WebView on the device then that might work for you.

"Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Android Device. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource using specific protocols. Schemes specifying a concrete syntax and associated protocols define each URI. The MobiControl Lockdown on Android devices allows you to use custom URIs. Such URIs include Launch://, Http://, Https://, File:// and Browser://."

Hi Matt,

If I wanted to open www.google.com do I specify "Browser://ww.google.com" under the kiosk item?

Thanks

Yes. I just tested this yesterday however and it seems to launch into a full Chrome browser, at least on the TC52 running Pie (9.0) that I was testing with. 

Yes, I tried the Browsers:// URI but I think that just opens the site with the default browser.

The expected behaviour of using "Browsers://" URI  it to open targeted site with the default browser on the device.

On Android Enterprise,  it may be possible to disable address bar with AppConfig parameter(s) if the Chrome browser is deployed from Managed Google Play store.  I am still looking for updated online documentation from Google to confirm.  

I did look through the (extensive) list of App Config items shown in MobiControl for the Chrome browser (as below), however there doesn't seem to be an option for this.

Chrome Configuration Items

• Enable alternate error pages
• Enable search suggestions
• Enable network prediction
• Incognito mode availability
• Disable saving browser history
• Enable printing
• Force Google SafeSearch
• Force minimum YouTube Restricted Mode
• Enable Safe Browsing
• Enable saving passwords to the password manager
• Enable AutoFill for addresses
• Enable AutoFill for credit cards
• Choose how to specify proxy server settings
• Address or URL of proxy server
• URL to a proxy .pac file
• Proxy bypass rules
• Proxy settings
• Supported authentication schemes
• Disable CNAME lookup when negotiating Kerberos authentication
• Authentication server whitelist
• Kerberos delegation server whitelist
• Account type for HTTP Negotiate authentication
• Enable NTLMv2 authentication.
• Enable the default search provider
• Default search provider name
• Default search provider keyword
• Default search provider search URL
• Default search provider suggest URL
• Default search provider icon
• Default search provider encodings
• List of alternate URLs for the default search provider
• Parameter providing search-by-image feature for the default search provider
• Default search provider new tab page URL
• Parameters for search URL which uses POST
• Parameters for suggest URL which uses POST
• Parameters for image URL which uses POST
• Default cookies setting
• Default JavaScript setting
• Default popups setting
• Default geolocation setting
• Control use of the Web Bluetooth API
• Control use of the WebUSB API
• Automatically grant permission to these sites to connect to USB devices with the given vendor and product IDs.
• Allow WebUSB on these sites
• Block WebUSB on these sites
• Allow cookies on these sites
• Block cookies on these sites
• Limit cookies from matching URLs to the current session
• Allow JavaScript on these sites
• Block JavaScript on these sites
• Allow popups on these sites
• Block popups on these sites
• Enable Translate
• Enable or disable bookmark editing
• Block access to a list of URLs
• Allow access to a list of URLs
• Enable trust in Symantec Corporation's Legacy PKI Infrastructure
• Disable proceeding from the Safe Browsing warning page
• Managed Bookmarks
• Enable the data compression proxy feature
• Enable deprecated web platform features for a limited time
• Browser sign in settings
• Minimum SSL version enabled
• Disable Certificate Transparency enforcement for a list of URLs
• Disable Certificate Transparency enforcement for a list of subjectPublicKeyInfo hashes
• Disable Certificate Transparency enforcement for a list of Legacy Certificate Authorities
• Enable Tap to Search
• Allow proceeding from the SSL warning page
• Define domains allowed to access G Suite
• Enable Google Cast
• Show content suggestions on the New Tab page
• Restrict the range of local UDP ports used by WebRTC
• Enable Site Isolation for specified origins on Android devices
• Enable Site Isolation for every site
• Restrict accounts that are visible in Google Chrome
• Enable contextual suggestions of related web pages
• Origins or hostname patterns for which restrictions on insecure origins should not apply
• Enable URL-keyed anonymized data collection
• Enables managed extensions to use the Enterprise Hardware Platform API
• Allows a page to show popups during its unloading

If your primary target of using Kiosk mode is to restrict access to finite number of known URL,  you can achieve similar effect by using AppConfig parameter 

Did you try https:// instead of Browser://  on the Kiosk lockdown?

That is what we are using on our web app and I don't have an Address Bar showing.

Please note that using https:// or Browser:// kiosk item does not guarantee chrome browser be used, but actually depends on the applications installed/configured on the device. 

Thanks Jim,

I did try both of these but neither work and as mentioned the behaviour of these URIs depends on the default browser set on the device (which should be SOTI Surf). The https:// URI does open the website without the address bar, however for the pdfs on the webstie can't be downloaded, which I think is because it won't allow pop ups.

I've given up trying to fix this issue so we are just going to use the Web Filter profile to block all other websites for the stock browser.