Add Ability to Prohibit Camera to Mobile Apps

Corporate mobile permissions policies may required that you add ability to prohibit camera to mobile apps. This is used to prevent access to the device camera and prevent unauthorized release of sensitive information.. This Knowledge Base article describes the Prohibit Camera functionality and explains how to add it to a mobile app with a few clicks.

We hope you find it useful and enjoy using Appdome!

About Prohibit Camera on Appdome

Appdome is a no-code mobile integration platform as a service (iPaaS), supporting a wide variety of implementations for Android and iOS apps.

Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites. For example, there is no Appdome SDK, libraries, or plug-ins to implement. The Appdome technology adds Prohibit Camera and relevant standards, frameworks and more to the app automatically, with no manual development work at all.

Prohibit Camera is part of  Mobile Permission Control which can be found in the Appdome Mobility Suite  under the Management tab.

When Prohibit Camera is enabled, The app cannot access the device camera. On Android, Prohibit Camera via Image Requests, disables the app from accessing images from external sources including the camera app and gallery. For more information on these types of controls, check out this blog.

Prerequisites for Prohibit Camera on Appdome

• Appdome account – IDEAL or Higher.
• Mobile App (.ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android) Have the app file available for Fusion on your computer.
• Appdome-GO access
• Signing Credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)

How to add ability to prohibit camera to mobile apps on Appdome

Follow these step-by-step instructions to add Prohibit Camera to Any Mobile App.

Upload a Mobile App to Your Account

Please follow these steps to add a mobile apps to your Appdome account.
If you don’t have an Appdome account, click here to create an account.

From the “Build” tab, Select Management

1. Open the Mobile Permission Control section.
2. Click on the toggle to enable Prohibit Camera
3. Click Build My App

The technology behind Build My App has two major elements – (1) a microservice architecture filled with 1000s of code sets needed for mobile integrations, and (2) an adaptive code generation engine that can recognize the development environment, frameworks and methods in each app and match the app to the relevant code-sets needed to add Prohibit Camera to the mobile app in seconds.

Congratulations! You now have a mobile app fully integrated with Prohibit Camera.

Protect your privacy by preventing access to the camera with Appdome

When “Prohibit Local Camera” is enabled, the app cannot access the camera on the mobile device. For more information on these types of controls, check out this blog.

To zoom out on this topic, visit  Appdome for Mobile App Security on our website.

After you add ability to prohibit camera to mobile apps on Appdome

After you have added Prohibit Camera to any Mobile App on Appdome, there are a few additional steps needed to complete your mobile integration project.

Add Context™ to the Appdome-Built App

Appdome is a full featured mobile integration platform. Within Context™, Appdome users can brand the app, including adding a favicon to denote the new service added to the app.
For more information on the range of options available in Context™, please read this knowledge base article.

Sign the Prohibit Camera enabled Appdome-Built App (Required)

In order to deploy an Appdome-Built app, it must be signed. Signing iOS app and Signing an Android app are easy using Appdome. Alternatively, you can use Private Signing, download your unsigned app and sign locally using your own signing methods.

Deploy the Appdome-Built App to a Mobile Device

Once you have signed your Appdome-Built app, you can download to deploy it using your distribution method of choice. For more information on deploying your Appdome-Built apps, please read this knowledge base.

That is it – Enjoy Appdome with Prohibit Camera in your app!

How Do I Learn More?

Check out Appdome for Mobile App Security page or request a demo at any time.

If you have any questions, please send them our way at support@appdome.com or via the chat window on the Appdome platform.

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