Add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to Mobile Apps

Appdome offers an easy and fast way to add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to mobile apps.  The BlackBerry Dynamics SDK supplies an app with a BlackBerry propriety tunneling solution. Additionally, BlackBerry offers an Authenticated Tunnel. Using the default tunneling solution from BlackBerry, users authenticate to BlackBerry and then to sign into the underlying mobile app. Using Authenticated Tunneling, BlackBerry users authenticate once to the BlackBerry environment only. Using an Authenticated Tunnel, the underlying mobile app trusts the BlackBerry authentication to access the corporate network.

When using Appdome to add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to mobile apps, users authenticate to BlackBerry and then to sign into the underlying mobile app. Using Appdome’s Authenticated Tunneling, BlackBerry users authenticate once to the BlackBerry environment only. Using an Authenticated Tunnel, the underlying mobile app trusts the BlackBerry authentication to access the corporate network.

This knowledge base article provides step-by-step instruction for using Appdome to add BlackBerry Authenticated Tunnel to any Android and iOS app.

We hope you find this knowledge base useful and enjoy using Appdome!

The No Code Way to Add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to Mobile Apps

Appdome is a mobile integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows users to add a wide variety of features, SDKs and APIs to Android and iOS apps. Using a simple ‘click to add’ user interface, Appdome allows anyone to easily add BlackBerry Authenticated Tunnel to any mobile app – instantly, no code or coding required.

Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites. For example, there is no SDK, libraries, or plug-ins to implement. Likewise, there are no required infrastructure changes and no dependency on Kerberos, OAuth, OpenID Connect or any other authentication standard inside the app. Users merely upload a mobile app binary, select the relevant Blackberry implementation option, and click “Fuse My App.” The Appdome technology automatically adds Blackberry (formerly Good) Dynamics SDK and relevant standards, frameworks and more to the app, with no manual development work at all. The integrated mobile apps will then use BlackBerry’s Authenticated Tunnel to securely tunnel app data as if BlackBerry Authenticated tunneling schemes were natively coded to the app.

Prerequisites for using Appdome for BlackBerry Authenticated EMM Tunnel

In order to use Appdome’s no code implementation of BlackBerry Authenticated Tunnel on Appdome, you’ll need:

• Appdome account – IDEAL or Higher.
• Mobile App (.ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android)
• BlackBerry Dynamics UEM server
• Signing Credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)

How to add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to Mobile Apps on Appdome 

Follow these step-by-step instructions to add Appdome Authenticated Tunnel to Any Mobile App:

Upload a Mobile App to Your Account

Please follow these steps to add a mobile app to your Appdome account.

If you don’t have an Appdome account, click here to create an account.

From the “Fuse” tab, Add Blackberry Authenticated Tunnel

Select the Fuse Tab. Note: a blue underline will appear showing the step is active.

Beneath the Fuse Tab, select Management. Note: a blue highlight will appear showing the category is active.

1. Under Enterprise Mobility Management, enable or toggle “ON” on the EMM Service Selector and select the BlackBerry Dynamics SDK.
2. Next, click to open Appdome Mobility Suite and select EMM Tunnel as your tunneling scheme.
   • Enable or toggle “ON” EMM Authenticated Tunnel only if you’ve set up your app to use Kerberos
3. Enable or toggle “ON” Adaptive App Routing. Note: the default is to route all app traffic to the UEM.
   • If you only want Specific URL’s to be Tunneled to the UEM, enable or toggle “ON” Inclusive Routing and Specify a list of protected URLs.
     Click here for more information about Adaptive App Routing.
4. Add Additional security features from Appdome Mobility Suite, or additional services like BoostEMM, ONEShield, or FIPS 140-2 Compliance.
5. Click Fuse My App
   

The technology behind Fuse 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 BlackBerry’s Authenticated Tunneling to the mobile app in seconds. For example, the technology of Authenticating Tunnel Connections, work that ordinarily, a developer would need to do.

Congratulations! When Appdome has completed your implementation (usually about 30 seconds), you’ll see the notice below. You now have a mobile app, fully integrated with Appdome’s EMM Authenticated Tunnel.

After Adding EMM Authenticated Tunnel to a Mobile App on Appdome

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

Add Context™ to the Appdome-Fused 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 BlackBerry Dynamics enabled Appdome-Fused App (Required)

In order to deploy an Appdome-Fused app, it must be signed. Signing iOS apps and Signing Android apps 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-Fused App to a Mobile Device

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

That is it – Enjoy Appdome for BlackBerry Dynamics in your app!

How Do I Learn More?

Check out Appdome for BlackBerry Dynamics or request a demo at any time.

If you have any questions on how to add BlackBerry Dynamics Authenticated Tunnel to mobile apps, please send them our way at support@appdome.com or via the chat window on the Appdome platform.

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