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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, LizzieCelebrating 1 year of the Customer Community
Hello everyone, It's hard to believe it's been a year since we launched this amazing community! In that short time, you've all come together to share knowledge, solve problems, and help each other navigate the world of using Android for work. Here are a few personal highlights: Our community has grown to over 3500 registered members and you’ve marked over 140 topics as having an accepted solution! 🎉 Introduced a new service announcement board, to help you better monitor potentially business critical issues - a huge thank you to all of you who have reported and tested fixes. Your feedback is making an impact, one great example of this is based on your experiences in the community this best practices article was created to help other customers in future. So keep it coming! You’ve shared some fantastic tips and experiences on a range of topics; such as what to consider when choosing your EMM and not forgetting two community created guides (here & here). We also got to know each other a bit more - who knew our community is made up of fans of hiking, cycling, snowboarding, cruises, gaming, music, diving, board games and music! We've also reminisced over what our first mobile phone was. I’d like to say a special thank you to our Community Product Experts and most active contributors this year who have supported so many people here in the community, sharing their advice, tips, knowledge and insight - Moombas, jasonbayton, jeremy and Alex_Muc, mattdermody, jarmo_akkanen, Timmy 👏 We're so grateful everyone for your contributions and for making the community what it is. We hope you have enjoyed being part of the community this year and look forward to building the community further together in this year ahead. We want to make this an amazing resource for everyone using Android for work and we can't do it without you. To celebrate, we’d love to hear from you, we’ve put together this light hearted community bingo card (thanks Rose for your creative skills here 😀). Tick off the actions you’ve completed and let us know how you scored below. In the middle, you’ll see a square to share your feedback and ideas, what you’ve liked about the community this year, what you would like to see more of, in the replies below. A massive thank you again from all of the AE Customer Community Team. 🔗 Register in the community 🔗 Introduce yourself 🔗 Accept a solutionCommunity Festival 2024: take a look
Hello everyone, From Monday 2nd - Friday 6th December, here in the Android Enterprise Customer Community we are hosting our very first community festival to celebrate the end of the year. It's a great way for us all to come together and chat with each other on some interesting topics and articles created by fellow community members. Each day this week, a different community member has agreed to take part and write an article/post on a particular topic of interest for us here in the community. These posts will be on a mixture of subject areas; some Android specific and some tech inspired. How can I get involved? Keep an eye out for all the festival posts throughout this week and please do get involved in conversations, even just to say - great post! 😀 I'm sure all of those creating a topic would love to see your replies. Take a look at the community posts below: 👏 1st day: Highlighting 3 great resources of information for the Android Enterprise community by Timmy 2nd day: The long road from SMS to RCS by Alex_Muc 3rd day: The AI Renaissance: Building us up & making us laugh by BenMcc 4th day: Introduction to a mobile only strategy in a large company by vincent and Yann_ROLAND 5th day: Looking ahead: what could be next for Android? by jasonbayton Thanks so much, LizzieWishing you a fantastic 2025!
Hello everyone, I hope you've all had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. As we step into a new year, I wanted to wish you a very great 2025, both professionally and personally. I also want to thank those of you who contributed to the community in 2024. It was our first full year as the customer community (which feels very strange saying, as it feels so much longer). We've had some fantastic conversations, shared lots of great insights and helped many peers troubleshoot their questions. The feedback shared in 2024 has already made a difference and had an impact, which has been amazing to see. Plus, we've also got to know quite a few new faces here in the community. 🌟 A massive thank you to all of you. I also wanted to do some special shoutouts to: Moombas, jasonbayton, Alex_Muc, BenMcc, jeremy, jarmo_akkanen, mattdermody, Timmy, Michel, matsm, Rakib. weberda, Yann_ROLAND, vincent, ian Looking forward to lots of exciting things coming, enjoy your year and I look forward to speaking with you more. If you have anything you are focusing on in 2025 or looking forward to, please do share. Lizzie (and the whole AE community team)Food: Sushi Guide
Two months ago, the community members were asked HERE about their favorite food. 🍕Pizza was the clear winner! But nobody said anything about 🍣sushi. Because it's expensive and far too complicated? No, sushi is not that complicated! 🤩 A few years ago, I bought a “sushi box” with all the basic ingredients. Just buy some vegetables and fish and you're good to go. So I dared to try it with two friends and... the result was pretty adventurous. There were no instructions or tips in the box, just ingredients and tools. Although we did almost everything wrong, I didn't let that daunt me. I picked up tips here and there and experimented myself. Anyone can prepare good sushi - with a little patience. With a little practice, perhaps even at the first attempt, you can make much better sushi than what you can buy in the supermarket. This guide will focus on Maki and California rolls (“inside-out rolls”). Main ingredients and tools 1 Salt and sugar to flavor the rice 2 Nori sheets For the sushi rolls 3 Rice vinegar to flavor the rice 4 Sesame Decoration and extra flavor for California rolls 5 Wasabi For seasoning and extra spiciness when eating 6 "Sushi" Rice The main ingredient for sushi 7 Soy sauce For that extra taste when eating 8 Sushi rolling mat Tool for rolling. (left is my favorite, but right is fine) The ingredients often keep for several months. The spiciness of wasabi decreases over time. The packaging of nori sheets often contains silicate packets to prevent the nori from attracting moisture after opening. If you buy “sushi rice” in the supermarket, you are on the safe side. But it should mainly be short-grain rice. Pudding rice is therefore also very suitable. 💡 On the left is pudding rice, on the right sushi rice. You need to cut the nori in half for maki and California rolls. The best way to do this is with clean kitchen scissors. 💡 The nori have a flat and a rough side. The rough side is for the rice. Popular, fresh ingredients I definitely recommend Japanese mayonnaise from Kewpie. It gives maki with avocado or cucumber an extra kick. I also much prefer to use this mayonnaise in California rolls instead of cream cheese. 💡 Cucumbers are a classic for maki! Quarter the cucumber lengthwise. (1) Then remove the inner, softer part (2) and cut the quarter in half again. (3) The diameter of these eighths is ideal for maki! Avocados are perfect for makis and especially in combination with salmon. Salmon is great for makis and California rolls. You can also experiment with other types of fish. Personally, I sometimes find tuna too sour. Cook and flavor the rice If you have a rice cooker, sushi is even easier (and faster!). The rice/water ratio for a rice cooker is 1x rice to 1.5x water. If you have to use a cooking pot, it is best to follow the instructions on the rice pack. You should rinse the rice 2-3 times before cooking Sushi rice is cooked without salt. How much rice you need to cook depends on the number of people and how hungry you are. These are my approximate recommendations per person: Small 100g rice Medium 150g rice Large 200g rice As soon as your rice is cooking, you should take care of the most important part of sushi: The seasoning for the rice. After all, sushi directly translates as “sour rice”. 💡 The seasoning really plays a key role in whether the sushi tastes good or bland. You can experiment with more or less flavor, but the amount is my personal recommendation. 😃 100g Rice 200g Rice 400g Rice Rice vinegar ~14,6g ~29,25g 58,5g (= 4,5 tablespoons) Sugar ~10,5g ~21g 42g (= 3 tablespoons) Salt ~1,3g ~2,6g 5,2g (= 1,5 teaspoons) Simply place the ingredients in a bowl and mix for a few minutes until the salt and sugar have dissolved in the vinegar. Add the liquid to the rice as soon as the rice is done and stir everything very well. The rice must now cool down. Do not try it in the fridge! (This does not work well 💡😅) Spread the rice evenly on wooden or cutting boards. The rice will then cool down relatively quickly. As soon as the rice is no longer warm, it can be used. Let's roll! Maki Lay the mat down so that the cords are pointing upwards. Place the nori almost at the bottom of the mat. Place the rice on the rough side of the nori. Prepare a bowl of water. You can use the water to moisten your hands so that the rice doesn't stick to them as much. Spread the rice thinly and evenly over the nori The upper edge must remain free at least as thick as a finger Now add the filling to about the middle of the rice. (If you fill the maki too full, you won't be able to close it! 😀 ) Tip for fish: Take some wasabi on your finger and spread it on the rice where the fish is lying Tip for vegetables: Add a little mayonnaise Wet your finger and moisten the nori on the top edge where no rice has been spread. Now roll up from the bottom with both hands. Fold in to where the rice ends. (So don't roll it up completely!) Then carefully press the maki tight. Then roll the pressed part over the moistened area. California Rolls In a California roll, the whole nori is covered with rice. Additional rice is added to the top edge. Then turn the nori over. If rice falls off the top edge, you can stick it back on. You can easily get three times the content of a maki in a California roll. Now roll up from the bottom with both hands. Then carefully press the roll tight. Then let it roll in the mat, to get a round shape. You can then roll the roll in sesame or sprinkle it with a teaspoon. Cut it! No matter if Maki or California Roll: Cut the roll in half Lay the two pieces parallel divide the pieces by three and then place them upright That's it! The process may seem like a lot, but it's actually quite simple: Cook the rice Flavor the rice Cut the fresh ingredients roll cut You need the most patience when rolling because of the sticky rice. And with a little practice, you will become more skillful and faster 😀 150g of rice is enough for about 3 maki and one California roll. 🍣 Have fun trying it out. 😎A recap of MWC
Hello! MWC '24 wrapped up last week, and I thought I'd put together a few key takeaways of the event. I shan't go too deep, but of course you're welcome to query any aspect of the event and if I spent time looking at it, I'll gladly answer 🙂 Innovation galore From HMD's Fusion devkit to Lenovo's transparent-screened laptop, MWC is always guaranteed to see the latest and greatest the ecosystem has to offer. There were a few products in the Android world that caught my eye - TCL I was particularly fond of TCL's new Nxtpaper products featuring version 3.0 of their technology, as it so incredibly bridges the gap between modern display requirements and that of e-ink. The displays were responsive, easy on the eyes, and bring with them the added benefit of a natural writing feel, if you're the type who likes to scribble on their devices 🙂 Lenovo/Moto Though not Android per-se, Lenovo's fully transparent laptop display concept is a glimpse into the future of the devices we might be using. I'm getting strong year 3000 vibes from this: Bringing back to Android though, they were also showing off a detachable Windows/Android hybrid device, the ThinkBook Plus Hybrid, offering an Android tablet that plugs into an Intel-powered Windows base station. Details were light on the interoperability between the two OSes, other than some shared partitions for file management, but it is still early days, with a summer release on the cards. I didn't snap a photo there, but here's one with credit to Ars: Is it something I'd use? Not really. I think the theme of 2024 in the Android world is convergence, not separation. Which is why I spent a little extra time with the moto side of the stand talking about the capabilities of Thinkphone, demonstrating their own equivalent of Samsung's DeX, Moto Ready For. I also got to take a peek at their foldable concept up close, but maintain the use case for something like this just isn't there for me, especially learning the obvious one, a bracelet, required another accessory for the device to magnetise to - It's a cool concept, and I suppose the point is more to demonstrate their display prowess, which this very much does. On the subject of flexible displays, foldables were everywhere. Including, no less, one from Energizer, the company that this year also brought us the 28000mAh capacity brick of a phone. Techno's lineup alone is nearly as many foldables as we'd seen in total across the ecosystem a couple of years ago - Rugged & Dedicated ODMs & OEMs were everywhere offering their products and solutions, all white-labelled, to the masses, and there were some impressive demonstrations, from devices sitting in tanks of water to being embedded into the floor while thousands of attendees trod on them (a display I first saw with Bullitt in 2019, RIP). The variance of dedicated & enterprise tech was wonderful. I moved between stands showing specialised Android-powered camera systems, including not only the typical FLIR sensors, but also detachable snake cameras, night-vision systems, and more. There were devices for digital signage, kiosks, extreme environments (a few explosion-safe options for example), and much more - all powered by Android. But it wasn't just enterprise, I saw a general increase also in the for-purpose Android market. The number of handheld gaming devices, wearables, and more running Android was exceptional. Tip of the iceberg It goes without saying there was so much to see, and I enjoyed reconnecting with partners and vendors of software solutions for Android Enterprise while I was there too. Beyond the Android innovations, there was an obvious push on AI (it was everywhere), wearables (Apple certainly seems to be spurring competition in the xR space), and a whole gargantuan heap of network and infrastructure that's amazing to see, but sits way above my paygrade 🙂 It was a blast! Here's a short video of me walking around the event:
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Hello everyone! As we reach the end of a busy 2023, we are also reaching the 6 month mark of the Android Enterprise Customer Community, so I thought this was an excellent opportunity to reflect and celebrate a few community milestones. Here are a few of my personal favourites, but please do share your own. 🎉 Our community is growing: 1,300+ registered community members - whoop! 🎉 We are starting to chat, more and more: over 1,300 posts and replies 🎉 More critical information shared: a new dedicated area for customer focused service announcements 🎉 Power of the community: community members identified and tested several important bugs including around missing apps and Gmail managedconfig 🎉 2 community created guides 🎉 I also loved learning about your interests and introductions in our New to the community discussion and off-topics such as what was your first mobile? I also wanted to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to a few members (👏 at the ready): Community Product Experts and superstars: Moombas, jeremy and jasonbayton, for all the time and effort you had taken to help reply to questions and give insights into discussions A double thank you to Jason for also creating two community guides, here and here (To add we will be sharing more about the Product Expert program in January if this has sparked your interest 😀) Great conversation: lgstalder took a lot of time supporting other members with changes to wifi configuration jarmo_akkanen created some really interesting discussions (incl. sharing his experience moving EMMs) Great feedback and testing: there are many people to mention here, so a big thank you to all of you. I'd like to specially highlight Alex_Muc and matsm for dedicating a large time to check if issue has been fixed and providing quick responses A massive thank you to each and everyone of you who have contributed to the community this year, the community is all about peers coming together and support each other and sharing experience. I'm looking forward to a great 2024 and more interesting conversation. In the words of ReeceK "let's keep this community rocking" (yep, slightly regretting adding that in! 😂) Feel free to share any personal highlights and/or if you have any ideas on what you would like to see in the next year. It would be fantastic to hear from you. We all wish you a very enjoyable end to 2023 and start to 2024, however you are celebrating. Massive thanks, Lizzie & Reece (and all of the Customer Community Team)Create your community signature
Hi there, community! With this new platform comes the ability to add a reasonable, tasteful signature. If you'd like one like mine, it's pretty easy to do! Head on over to your personal info within your profile. Scroll down to signature, and have at it! Plaintext signature If you're satisfied with a plain text signature like that of Lizzie, simply type away. The signature field will accept a few lines-worth of text before it cuts off. HTML signature Fancy something more interesting? The signature input supports HTML, so you're able to embed images, stylise your text, or really anything else other than set your own CSS styles. Here's an example: <b>Hello!</b> <!-- this is a bold line of text --> <br /> <!-- this is a line break --> <img src="my.logo/logo.png" width="250px" /> <!-- this is an embedded image --> <br /> <a href="https://my.blog">Check out my blog for more tips!</a> <!-- this is a link! --> Copying and pasting the above into your signature field should give you a basic HTML signature with an embedded image, and a link to your own website. A bit of Googling for those unfamiliar with HTML will help offer more customisation also. Note! Keep in mind, the maximum height for a signature is 150px. Anything over this and the text or image will be cut off. Styles, like CSS either inline ( <div style="color:blue;"> ) or block ( <style> color: blue; </style> aren't supported If you add your own new lines, the signature field will try to update automatically with them, creating larger spaces between signature lines than necessarily desired. Make sure if you're using the line break <br />, you don't also tap enter to create a new line also. If you do and save, you can go back and remove any extra line breaks. Keep your signature neat, on-topic with the community, and devoid of commercial or unsavoury content less the admins drop the ban-hammer on you. Enjoy your new signature!What Was Your First Mobile Phone? 📞
Ring Ring 📞…. It's time for a trip down memory lane. 🚀 Let's share some nostalgia and chat about our first mobile phones! 📞👶 I’ll start, my first mobile phone was the Nokia 3210. It was passed down from my Mum who upgraded to a Sony Ericsson. Good times! How about you? Did you have a customized ringtone? What was your go to feature?. Let us know in the comments.What do you like about your work environment(s)?
Hello everyone, I hope you have had a good week. Whether you work in a company office/environment or work from your living room table, perhaps a mix of the two-the space around us is important. A environment that you enjoy being in can greatly impact the amount of time you want to be there for and how you work. Inspired by a conversation with a fellow community member earlier in the week Alex_Muc, I thought I'd start a discussion for us all to share a little more about our work areas. Perhaps your office building has colourful walls or artwork displays, or on your home desk you have a very nice pot plant! I'll kick us off, I spend a few days in the office during the week and a few days on my living room table! I find I work differently in both. I enjoy my living room table as I have a room that has lots of light flooding in, but I do have to tidy up the table at the end of the day. My office desk, I have a couple of folks to keep me company... ...and if you have ever been to the London Google office you will have seen we are a bit of a fan of pixel art-sticky note style! 😀 It would be great to hear from you, what do you like about your work environment(s)? It would be great to hear from you, thanks so much, Lizzie
