Data transfer between application outside profile and inside profile in Android Lollipop

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Question related to Android for Work. My application was a device Admin privileged app and now I have modified the code which creates a managed work profile and sets itself as the profile owner.

The question is, if I upgrade my application, it becomes a profile owner from device admin. Now there will be two copies of my application, one outside the profile and one inside (badged version).

Is there a way if I need to transfer some data from the personal space app to the work profile app (badged version)?

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Answer 1

The DevicePolicyManager class implements a the addCrossProfileIntentFilter method for explicitly allowing Intents to be sent from the managed profile to the primary user profile.

public void addCrossProfileIntentFilter (ComponentName admin, IntentFilter filter, int flags)

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Called by the profile owner of a managed profile so that some intents sent in the managed profile can also be resolved in the parent, or vice versa. Only activity intents are supported.

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