Executing intent for Android app with Intune?

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Executing intent for Android app with Intune?

David Luu 15

Please refer to this other MS forum post that hasn't received any real feedback: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune/sendintent-command-in-intune/m-p/3757882#M14021.

To summarize, looking for the Intune equivalent to the following functionality offered by competing MDM solutions, if Intune even supports this:

AirWatch: https://docs.trendmicro.com/all/ent/tmms-ee/v9.8_sp4/en-us/tmms-ee_9.8_sp4_ssdm_olh_server/Configuring-Automati.html

SOTI

https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v15.6/en/scriptcmds/reference/sendintent.html

https://discussions.soti.net/thread/deploying-an-android-app-with-custom-script-action-to-trigger-a-given-intent-upon-deployment

Lu Dai-MSFT 28,536 Reputation points

2023-03-03T01:35:10.68+00:00

@David Luu Thanks for posting in our Q&A. To avoid any misunderstanding, could you please clarify what did you mean "Execute intent for Android app" and the specific feature you want intune has. And we will continue to discuss this issue.
David Luu 15 Reputation points

2023-03-06T02:38:38.4166667+00:00

Hi, I am referring to executing custom actions that are available or registered to an Android app: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent. Some additional examples in addition to what I already posted:

https://datalogic.github.io/dxu/android-intents/

the auto-launch process for VMWare Workspace ONE described here: https://www.7signal.com/info/android-deployment.

in my particular case, the feature is to auto-launch a specific app, passing it specific parameter that it can use during startup initialization. This makes the app start up & behave differently than the default when no parameter is specified.
Lu Dai-MSFT 28,536 Reputation points

2023-03-07T01:39:20.4666667+00:00

@David Luu Honestly, I haven't found that there is any built-in setting in intune can auto-launch a specific app on Android devices.

Currently, if you want to customize the app settings, you can deploy an app configuration policy to make it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/app-configuration-policies-overview
Matt The Geeky 5 Reputation points

2023-03-30T16:18:00.6233333+00:00

I am trying to do something even more simple - just have it auto start an app "Managed Home Screen" (basically to force kiosk mode).

The profile and apps and everything all works GREAT until the device is restarted.

Much like David was saying ANY MDM platform has the ability to auto start an app (to lock the devices into kiosk mode).

There are tons of options within Intune - except the option to auto start an app - am I missing something?
Matt The Geeky 5 Reputation points

2023-03-30T16:24:25.3133333+00:00

I am trying to do something even more simple ... just force an app to auto start.

Microsoft Managed Home Screen - basically to force Kiosk mode with a few apps available.

Lots of options to turn things on or off / configure things and it all works GREAT until the device is rebooted and the app is not started ... am I missing something?

Like David was saying above just about all third party MDM applications have something for this.
Georg Johansen 0 Reputation points

2025-05-14T08:11:08.69+00:00

Funny that when asked simple feature questions, no one answers for two years...