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Private app package name already in use
I got an APK from our Digital Signage vendor Poppulo (formerly known as Four Winds Interactive) and tried to upload it as a private Google Play app through the iframe in Intune. Got this error: ...
To be honest i don't work with Intune yet, so i don't know if they have the same possibility like Soti Mobicontrol but want to mention it.
In Soti we can upload apps as "Enterprise apk" internally to the MDM (or even as a package), so the app will be somehow sideloaded and installed by the MDM agent. Then you don't need to upload any app as a private one and don't need to care of things like that.
We do this with several apps where we got the apk from the developers but the app is also with the same package name in the (public) play store. We don't need to worry about that with that solution as we ran into this in the beginning as well.
Edit: I think this might be it in Intune (?): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/lob-apps-android
Yeah like mattdermody stated, I can't deploy APKs to Android Enterprise devices in Intune. I can only do that if I manage it with the Device Administrator or AOSP methods. That's what I meant when I said this in my original post:
It's my first time deploying a custom app and I've only just now realized that Intune's Line-of-business (LOB) app mode that lets you upload APKs is not allowed on devices managed with Android Enterprise. Meaning Google Play private apps are my only method of uploading and deploying a custom APK.
