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micro:bit official Android application code. The application is free to download from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.microbit
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Feature: Support managed configurations for chrome devices #35

Open microbit-mark opened 2 years ago

microbit-mark commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

By default, Android apps installed on Chrome OS are not propagated with any web filtering from the OS. In practice this means you can use any app that presents a web view as a browser.

In managed network configurations such as schools, this can be exploited to bypass web filters

It is possible to configure web filtering for Android apps as described in

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7131624?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Cstep-optional-apply-managed-configurations-to-an-android-app

but the current Android app does not seem to support this

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Describe the solution you'd like App facilitates managed configurations as set out in https://developer.android.com/work/managed-configurations