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Google Play services for AR (ARCore) is not available as a Managed Play Store app
Hi - we have an AR app that our customer wants to distribute to their workers as a Managed Play Store app for a device setup in kiosk mode. They are using Microsoft Intune as their MDM. The devic...
Hi Alex_Muc thanks for the the response and I assumed the same (automatic download & install).
I also assumed "Google Play Services for AR" was a component (not an app). Thus, reason it would not show up as an "app" in the store. As I understand, it seems to be findable if device is not managed.
Would be of great help if someone could reproduce and verify this is an issue with Google's Managed Play Store and not with the MDM (Microsoft Intune, etc.).
dhitomi I did not see the app in the search results on unmanaged devices.
The app is available for Managed Play, but since the app is probably excluded in the search, it cannot be explicitly assigned via MDM.
For testing purposes, you could use the developer options of the web browser to trick the search in the iFrame and open the app entry in the iFrame.
- Open the Google Play iFrame
- Right-click on any store entry (image or text) -> Inspect
- Replace the AppID in the html-code with com.google.ar.core
- Open the modified link in the iFrame
Original link
<a href="/managed/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome"><div class="WsMG1c nnK0zc" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</div></a>
Modified link
<a href="/managed/apps/details?id=com.google.ar.core" data-focusid="19"><div class="WsMG1c nnK0zc" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</div></a>
Hi Alex_Muc -- our customer attempted the workaround above and provided this response:
I’ve tried and I am able to edit the line as suggested but never changes to the Google Play Services for AR as in the second screenshot.
This might be asking much - but would it be possible to do a screen recording, so they can see the steps performed and show the end result? Thank you.
