Hi Jan,

Related to your follow-up question asking about StageNow,  I am not 100% sure, but I believe it is very unlikely for StageNow to have such support.

Having such configuration with intent for a reasonably complex app like Android Messaging is also unlikely.  If you can't find any online documentation of any intent mechanism implemented in the app, you should try to contact relevant people from Google to officially confirm the intent names and parameters required.  While hacking such information with some freely available tools is possible for some simple cases (I have personally done this type of hacking for some personal or casual stuffs), it is not good practices for stability, accountability and other considerations needed by best-in-class enterprises. 

From my 25+ years of work experiences in various US/European/Hong Kong companies in various hardware and software technology fields, my gut feeling is that Google management will choose the AppConfig framework if they decide to add support for such configuration upon receiving sufficient corporate customers' feature requests. 

So instead of waiting,  maybe you should proactively contact Google or the app developers to tell them your business use-case and  file a feature request.

As far as I know, there is no such MobiControl script.  I've just checked the managed Google Play store. there isn't any AppConfig managed-configuration option support for the latest Google messaging app  com.google.android.apps.messaging. 

Thanks, Raymond.

Do you (or someone else) know if it's possible with Zebras StageNow tool ?

/Jan

You can look for other alternatives to block the message on the device. Do you have the possibility to apply a kiosk mode? Or the simcard used can have the message lock configuration internally using the administrator password and the configuration menu.

Hi Jorge.

Thanks for your response.

The device is already in (MobiControl) lockdown mode. When we start the messaging app we see this.

Sorry for the local language, but we want to select the "Brug beskeder uden chatfunktioner" which translates to "Use messages without chat functions". So it's not really a notification. We would not leave it to the user to select correctly - so if a centra configuration was possible, we would prefer that,

/Jan

Hello Jan,

Now I understand what you want. I believe that the only way to do this via MobiControl would be via intent, you would have to capture the intent / broadcast that performs this configuration if it exists via ADB log.

In some cases here in Brazil we do some configuration manually before delivering the device to the end user, but we always try to automate

Here is a Google manual on Intents for you to take a quick look, I've already use intent to solve some problems with great success.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common

And here is the SOTI manual on how to use intent within SOTI:

https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v14.0/en/scriptcmds/reference/sendintent.html

One last doubt, do you need the user to have access to this messaging application?

Thanks, Raymond - and Jorge !

I'll try to contact the app developer.

/Jan