This article explains on how to install custom/3rd party applications on device(s) which are located far away from your office or operations center. Custom or 3rd party applications are the specific applications for your organization. Your organization may not want certain applications available publicly, on Play Store, and they need to be pushed to device(s) as and when required or updates need to be installed. AMGuard provides a mechanism to remotely install custom applications.

Note that any changes made as shown below, will be reflected to ALL devices within the policy.

  • Login to AMGuard console with valid credentials
  • Go to Policy Groups page, in this page you will see all your policies
  • Select the policy to which you would want to add custom application. Click on policy name to view further details of policy

  • Click on “Policy” tab and go to “App Management”
  •   The landing page would be Custom/Third Party Apps. For the first time you will see an empty page as there no apps added.

  • To add apps, click on “+” icon and select “Upload APK”. It is assumed that you already have an apk file.

  • In “Upload APK” pop up, click on “Click here to upload”, which opens file explorer (this may be slightly different depending on the OS you are using to access AMGuard), go to the folder where you have placed apk file and select it. My Workstation application has been used to demonstrate this feature in the next set of screenshots.


  • You can proceed to rename or ignore it. Click on “Upload”

  • Make sure the file is uploaded 100 %. Once uploaded, the app can be seen in the “Custom/Third Party Apps” list


  • Now click on “SAVE AND CONTINUE” to reflect the changes on device.

  • Once policy is saved, notice the version of the policy gets incremented by 1.

  • It may take sometime for the app to get installed depending on the strength of the network available to the device. 


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