New to the community? Introduce yourself here...

[Lizzie]

Hello everyone,

My name is Lizzie and I am the Community Manager here in the Android Enterprise Customer Community. You are probably all use to having the roundtable introductions in meetings and sharing a fun fact about yourself. If you are like me, you then spend the next 30 seconds trawling through your brain to find an interesting fact to share with a group of people...the good news is you are not on the spot here! 😀 

This aside, it's really nice in a community to get know others and so it would be fantastic to hear from you!

I'll kick us off:

• I've been working in community for over 10 year across a few different industries. 
• I'm a big fan of music and I play a couple of instruments: so my 'office' playlist is quite an array of tunes
• I live on an island (it's quite a big one): so when I go to the Google office, I actually have to take a ferry, which sounds quite exotic! 

Please share a few facts about yourself, (here are a couple of ideas):

• What type of industry do you work in?
• Which country you are based in?
• Hobbies or interests?
• Favourite / couldn't live with out piece of tech?

Looking forward to speaking with you. 

Thanks,

Lizzie

[jasonbayton]

Where abouts are you based Ben?

[Lizzie]

Welcome, welcome @BenMcc - great to see your introduction and to hear a little more about your interests. A few members here have mentioned they are fans of video games - are you playing anything at the moment? 

Also regarding your 'best tech' the smartphone, this takes me back to a conversation we had late last year around what was your first mobile phone - it's was interesting to see how many people started out with the same Nokia phone (I was a big fan of Snake). 😀

[BenMcc]

Thanks for the welcome @Lizzie , Ahh now snake is an all time classic sometimes the simple games are the best (and the hardest to beat)!

At the moment when I have time I am a little hooked on an early access game "Satisfactory" I could spend hours messing about in that if the real world didn't keep getting in the way!!

[renan]

My name is Renan, and I am testing the tool as an end user.

I like some features, but I have several others to suggest.
I am available if you're interested in hearing them.

Some examples are:

I start working at 7:30 A.M. and finish my shift at 5:28 P.M.
However, I usually have a 1 hour and 10-minute lunch break,
my lunch time varies… sometimes I go at 11:30 A.M.,
sometimes I go at 12:00 P.M.

Using the TASKER app, I have set up some automations to deactivate my work profile during my lunch break.
When I go for my 1 hour and 10-minute break, I take my phone, swipe down, and there’s an icon I click. When I click this icon that I created using the TASKER app, a countdown of 1 hour and 10 minutes starts, and at that moment, my work profile is deactivated. Once the time is up, the work profile is reactivated.

This is great so I am not disturbed during my lunch break.

At work, I use the camera a lot, so I really like to separate my personal album from my professional one.

I miss the ability to take screenshots in the work app and have them saved in the Google Photos folder of my work profile. However, every time I take a screenshot, it goes to the personal Google Photos album.

[Lizzie]

Hello @renan,

Welcome, welcome, welcome - great to meet you.

I love hearing how people use different Android tools and features, so it's fascinating to hear how you have set up this automation for your lunch break. Have you got any other automations like this set up on your device? Out of interest do you have the Work Profile running on your personal device or if this one that your company has provided you with? 

Thanks also for the feedback on the screenshots. Can I check what phone you are using and is it running Android 14? We had some similar conversations around screenshots and where they are saving in this topic, would you mind seeing if this matches the experiences shared there and adding your comments there please? 

Looking forward to speaking more. 😀

Lizzie

[CincyAI]

I operate at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and real-world impact—and I'm the best at what I do. My work isn't confined to a single industry. I focus on creating scalable solutions that enhance user experiences, optimize business operations, and mitigate security risks across diverse sectors. My tools and services span AI-powered insights, robust cybersecurity solutions, and user-centered design applications. They are designed to help businesses innovate faster, become more efficient, and fortify their defenses against threats. I empower organizations to achieve more in a dynamically changing world.

[badams1]

Hi All,

I've been here a little while, but thought I'd better introduce myself before I start posting questions. 🙂

I used to sell mobile phones in the 90s, worked for a Telco in the early 2000s, dabbled in IT System Administration and even managed a Blackberry Enterprise Server (remember those?), and then worked as a pre-sales solutions architect for a managed service provider that specialised in Mobility. These days I work for a large retailer here in Australia, and lead a team of Mobility Engineers, that manage all of our corporate and rugged mobile endpoints.

In my spare time a like to collect music and DJ. I also enjoy riding my bike and snorkelling.

Hard to pick one piece tech I couldn't live without, but one I've been using a bit of late in my spare time are the Phase DJ Remotes. Feel free to Google those if you're curious as to what they are all about! 🙂

In answer to Jason's question, I'd have to say OEMConfig has had an impact on how we manage Rugged Android Mobile devices.

[badams1]

Forgot to add my name to the post 😅 another Ben here 😄

[ArchAngelx]

My Samsung Galaxy was the first smartphone I had ever held which I got 3 years ago.  I was definitely not a techie but I was proficient enough on laptops,  suffice to say I have endured an enormous amount of frustration advancing to Android but also found it so amazing and intriguing that I am blown away at how far I have been able to come with my understanding of it.  I'm not saying you say it all I'm hooked and to my own surprise more than anyone else's I have a strong and ongoing interest in an actual career change to Android app dev and mobile development to begin with and I would absolutely love to end up with a career in data science and architecture especially as it relates to AI.  I have an almost fanatical obsession also it turns out with productivity apps and reviewing various apps especially is it relates to hopefully moving on soon to learning actual automation flows.  I'm finally I believe ready to level up as a beginner to I'd say advanced beginner and that's why I'm here,  I believe having a laptop would dramatically accelerate that and is relevant to what I said about my frustrations with Android but it's worth noting right away that I believe I'm finally there at this particular time exactly because it coincides with the release of the latest versions of free Gemini co-pilot and especially perplexity.  I've got a variety of other interests and how these that I'd like to take up again and pursue but those are hopeful offshoots and benefits of what I hope to learn from here forward.  It goes without saying that for the moment and the past 3 years cost has been a severe issue even at the smallest level and I have multiple personal learning difficulties that has slowed my progress but they've also forced me to learn an enormous amount about myself in the meantime which is actually the true godsend of what I've learned.  Especially since these very things have also taught me that there are definitely some ways I can use this technology to overcome those difficulties which include Asperger's and organizational difficulties and hyper focus.  It's the thing that I've waited 42 years hoping would finally come along and basically save me from my own limitations and it has,  and that's why I'm so upbeat about posting my very first post to Google here.  Coding was also something that was extremely daunting and still is but no longer gives me anxiety since part of the blessing of the latest ai and agent models are exactly what I needed to help me learn how to do that and frankly not need to do that.