About this app
• This app acts as a MDM solution for businesses and it is intended to work ONLY within the SmartCircle network! It cannot be used by end users without a SmartCircle subscription.
• This app can protect the Settings and Google Play store apps, if configured.
• This app accesses external files and deletes all user generated content such as images, videos, contacts, calendar events, wallpaper to prevent malicious or inappropriate content ending up in stores
• You can remotely provision SmartCircle Display configuration by logging into accounts.smartcircle.net
• This app could change the audio settings (volume) on the device and may lock the screen by going on top of other apps
• This app may be used for advertisement purposes to show video or picture content
• This app also uses WiFi, GPS location and CPU while running in the background, and therefore can dramatically decrease battery life. It is highly recommended that devices running this app remain charging at all times
• This app uses the Device Administrator permission to lock the screen, wipe the device and prevent direct uninstall
• This app uses Accessibility services and registers for window changed event type. If activated from the user interface, it will provide spoken feedback informing the user when the foreground application is changed
• This app collects and transmits personal or sensitive user data and account information (including but not limited to phone number, IMEI, user’s account email/s, etc.) as well as installed packages information to various SmartCircle.net related sub-domains. Information is used to track live display usage to ensure in-store demo compliance and to be included in various reports
FEATURES & BENEFITS - ONLY TO LIST A FEW:
✔ Customize your pricing campaigns in accordance with your brand identity
✔ Ensure electronic price label displays present the correct content
✔ Track and analyze customer engagement and interactions
✔ Detect offline devices ensuring store compliance
✔ Deletes and deletes unwanted content and uninstalls apps
✔ Automated scheduled price updates
✔ Cost-effective and easy to maintain
✔ Allow for visual content and attract loops
✔ Execute “Quick to follow” pricing strategies
✔ Full enterprise solution with years of experience
Explanation of permissions:
• Read phone state and identity - used to detect device ID and for SIM card removal feature
• Approximate location - used for several security features (see above)
• Modify or delete content on the device - used to clear downloaded media, and pictures and videos from the camera
• Disable your lock screen - used to keep device always on
• Connect and disconnect from WiFi, allow WiFi multicast - used to ensure constant connectivity
• Reorder running apps, check size - used to keep device on top if it is in state “idle”
• Display system-level alerts - used to detect global screen touch events
• Allow NFC enrollment - used to detect other SmartCircle enabled devices
• Change audio settings - used with several security features (see above)
• Read accounts - used to determine if an active account was setup on the device
• Use camera - used to capture unauthorized activity on the device
• Read/modify call log - used to clear the call low to refresh the display
• Ignore battery optimization - used to make sure that display is operational
• Read/modify calendar - used to clear unauthorized entries
• Read/modify contracts - used to clear unauthorized entries
• Change brightness - used to control idle media brightness
• Clear wallpaper - used to place wallpaper
• This app requires being whitelisted from battery optimizations
• Read list of accounts - used to collect installed accounts and produce reports
• Read package size - used to transmit info of installed packages and detect unauthorized usage
• Use Foreground service - used to allow app to stay on background
Allow management of all files - deletes content that could be malicious or inappropriate
App Permissions
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks.
Allows applications to set the wallpaper.
Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to write the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
