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Add MDM support to the Android client - #278
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe app now declares Android managed-configuration restrictions, reads policy snapshots, and applies them to engine behavior, navigation, and settings. Managed split-tunnel selections take precedence over stored selections and are read-only in the app. ChangesManaged Android policy
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Android as Android restrictions
participant VPNService
participant EngineRunner
participant MDMBridge
participant MainActivity
Android->>VPNService: Report restrictions changed
VPNService->>EngineRunner: Check whether policy changed
EngineRunner-->>VPNService: Return policy-change result
VPNService->>MDMBridge: Refresh policy snapshot
VPNService->>EngineRunner: Restart running engine
VPNService-->>MainActivity: Broadcast policy applied
MainActivity->>MDMBridge: Refresh policy snapshot
MainActivity->>MainActivity: Recreate screen if snapshot changed
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A rabbit checks the policy page,
Then dims a switch inside its cage.
The routes lie still, the profiles hide,
A managed tunnel takes its stride.
Fresh settings hop from leaf to leaf,
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@app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/profile/ProfileEditorDialog.java:
- Around line 152-164: In ProfileEditorDialog.applyMDMPolicy, record whether the
management URL is locked and make setChecking enable urlInput and serverSwitch
only when neither checking nor locked. In
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/profile/ProfileEditorDialog.java, lines
152-164, apply this lock state where MDM policy disables the controls; in
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/fistinstall/FirstInstallFragment.java,
lines 101-113, record serverLocked and make setBusy enable editTextServerUrl and
serverSwitch only when neither busy nor locked.
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- Line 1: Update the MDM URL comparison in ConflictURL to compare trimmed
EscapedPath values rather than decoded Path values, preserving the distinction
between escaped delimiters and literal path separators; add a test confirming
URLs with %2F and / are not treated as equivalent.
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…olicy disables the server switch and the URL field, but setChecking and setBusy re-enable them when a reachability probe or a setup-key login finishes, handing back a control the policy owns. Both now remember that the server is locked and leave it alone.
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- after MDM restart we don't call
fgNotification.startForeground(), while other restart paths do. - A refused
Commit()(because of MDM conflicts) stays staged and poisons later writes
Suggested fix: do not touch the permissive switch when it is managed, and drop or reopen thePreferencesinstance after a refused commit. allowRemoteJobsis managed but never lockeddisableUpdateSettingscovers only part of the UI; these remain editable
- the remote jobs switch;
- split tunnelling;
- the management URL in
ProfileEditorDialogandFirstInstallFragment.
- The schema declares fewer keys than Go honours
lazyConnection,debugBundleUploadURL,wireguardPortanddisableAutoConnectare not inapp_restrictions.xml MainActivitylistens forACTION_MDM_POLICY_APPLIEDwhich onlyVPNServicesends. With the VPN off and the app in the foreground, a pushed policy shows up on the nextonResume, not when it arrives.
Suggested fix: registering forACTION_APPLICATION_RESTRICTIONS_CHANGEDin the activity as well.
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- Around line 537-540: Keep the foreground service active across policy restarts
by updating the onStopped handling associated with restoreForegroundAfterRestart
so it does not call stopForeground during that restart. Remove the subsequent
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…ding (#282) The netbird submodule bump pulls in the mobile MDM bridge (netbirdio/netbird#6435), which changed two binding signatures the app calls: Android.newAuth now takes a PolicyFetcher, and Preferences.getPreSharedKey was replaced by hasPreSharedKey. Pass a null fetcher, which the Go side treats as MDM enforcement off, and switch the pre-shared key check to the new boolean getter. This is a temporary bridge until the Android MDM support in #278 wires the real fetcher through these call sites.
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* Bump netbird submodule to the deadline-only session watcher The engine no longer arms expiry-warning timers on Android and the gomobile StateChangeListener drops OnSessionExpiring; the app schedules the warnings itself from the deadline. * Keep the scheduler tests from running the worker during schedule With the SynchronousExecutor a job with zero initial delay runs inside schedule(). The tests used a deadline 5 minutes out, so the T-10 job ran immediately: it marked the warning fired and finished, which broke workerSkipsOtherProfile and cancelAllKeepsFiredMarks and let the in-window test pass on the automatic run instead of its own call. Use a deadline an hour out where the test drives the worker itself, and let the late-warning test assert on the automatic run directly. * Bump netbird submodule to main with the deadline-only session watcher * Adapt the setup-key login and PSK check to the MDM-aware gomobile binding (#282) The netbird submodule bump pulls in the mobile MDM bridge (netbirdio/netbird#6435), which changed two binding signatures the app calls: Android.newAuth now takes a PolicyFetcher, and Preferences.getPreSharedKey was replaced by hasPreSharedKey. Pass a null fetcher, which the Go side treats as MDM enforcement off, and switch the pre-shared key check to the new boolean getter. This is a temporary bridge until the Android MDM support in #278 wires the real fetcher through these call sites.
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@evgeniyChepelev Thanks, all six points from the previous round are addressed in As @mlsmaycon said there are some conflicts to resolve. There is one thing left: a stop during a policy restart leaves the notification stuck on "Connecting". In details:
The window is short, so it's not a critical issue, but a simple fix could be to use a single source of truth: have |
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The end of a run read restartPending and then started the engine as two separate steps. A stop arriving in between cleared the flag and stopped an engine that was already down, and the block went on to start it anyway, against the user's request. The same split let VPNService.onStopped see a pending restart that was cancelled straight after, leaving the notification on "connecting" with nothing coming to correct it. Both halves are now decided in finishRun(), under the lock stop() takes: either the engine goes back up, or the stop is announced. A stop lands before the decision, cancelling the restart so the stop is announced like any other, or after the new run has begun, where it stops that run. Listeners therefore never hear a stop that is about to be undone, so the service no longer needs to know a restart is in flight at all. It sets the connecting state when it asks for one and stays in the foreground across it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Brings the Android client to the same managed-configuration behaviour as iOS and
the desktop clients: an administrator's policy is read by the Go MDM layer,
enforced in the engine, and reflected in the UI.
Submodule
Bumps
netbirdtod2e62e358, five commits on from the current pin, which iswhere the MDM layer and its Android bindings land. Two binding changes come with
it and are handled here:
Preferences.getPreSharedKeyis nowhasPreSharedKey,and
newAuthtakes a policy fetcher.The gomobile bindings have to be rebuilt at the new pin (
./build-android-lib.sh)— the new methods do not exist in the old AAR.
How it works
MDMPolicyFetcherreadsRestrictionsManagerand hands the values to Go asJSON.
ManagedConfigurationdoes the encoding and is free of Android types, sothe conversion rules are unit-tested on the JVM.
MDMBridgeis the single place the fetcher is attached — client, profilemanager, every
Preferencesinstance and the login path — and it holds theenforcement snapshot the screens render from. There is no bare
Android.newPreferencesleft in the app: an unattached instance would both showthe user unmanaged values and let a write past a managed key.
Unlike iOS there is no process boundary to mirror across. Managed configuration
is delivered per app, into the app's own process, so the service that runs the
engine reads the same bundle the UI does.
A policy change arrives as
ACTION_APPLICATION_RESTRICTIONS_CHANGED, isconfirmed against Go's own change detector, and restarts the engine
non-interactively. An administrator re-saving an unchanged configuration is a
no-op, so the tunnel is not dropped for nothing. The screens are rebuilt from the
new snapshot, which is also how a withdrawn policy gives the user their settings
back.
Split tunnelling
The one key Android has and iOS does not.
splitTunnelModeandsplitTunnelAppsdecide which applications the interface carries, replacing theuser's own selection while the policy is in force. The values are read from the
managed configuration directly rather than from the Go snapshot, which reports
only that the keys are managed — the desktop clients apply the list themselves
and have no interface to hand it across. The screen shows the enforced selection
read-only and never writes it into the user's store.
UI
Follows the convention iOS set. A feature the policy switches off disappears —
advanced settings, profiles, the Networks tab. A single managed setting stays
visible but locked, with a line naming the organisation; a control that silently
vanishes reads as a bug, one that is greyed out explains itself. A write the
policy refuses is reported as a refusal, naming the keys Go returns, instead of
as an ordinary error.
app_restrictions.xml
Declares the fifteen keys the client honours, so an administrator gets a typed
form in their EMM console or in TestDPC instead of hand-written JSON.
No key carries a
defaultValueon purpose: some consoles deliver a declareddefault as though an administrator had set it, and a key that arrives is a key
the client treats as managed. Every setting would lock itself to its own default
on an enrolled device that configured nothing.
Testing
26 unit tests over the encoding, the snapshot parsing and the split-tunnel
mapping.
Verified end to end on an emulator with TestDPC as device owner:
MDM enrolled with 15 managed key(s): [...];managed configuration changed, applying the new policy;managed configuration pushed, nothing changedand restarts nothing;disableAdvancedViewremoves the Advanced row,disableNetworksremoves theNetworks tab and restores it when cleared;
with the "Managed by your organization" caption;
One behaviour worth knowing: Android defers this broadcast for processes in deep
cache, so a policy pushed at a long-backgrounded app is not applied the instant
it is sent. It is applied when the app is next opened or the engine next starts,
both of which re-read the policy — this is why the snapshot is re-read on resume
rather than only on the broadcast.
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