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Is there a standard way to implement enterprise managed app configuration in Android?

I know iOS 7.0 introduced "Managed App Configuration", that makes it easy to support configuration of an enterprise application by a variety of MDM solutions.
Is there a similar thing in Android?
I noticed that in the Google For Work help section it is mentioned, but for the life of me, I could not find how to implement support for it.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/6257696?hl=en&ref_topic=6137710
Should I implement "App Restrictions" as mentioned here?
If so, how can I support devices with Android versions prior to Lollipop?
http://www.appconfigforenterprise.org/dev-center.html

There is a website called AppConfig. It explains how it works both in Android and iOS and describes the Development steps. I'm also new to this field, but yes, as far as I know you need to implement App Restrictions.
And here is the Developer Training from Google, about Android for Work.

Develop an sdk in android

Would like to develop an sdk in android for our client ,so need help regarding coding standards and practices that needs to be followed for it.
Please share your valuable comments.

As per the #user370305 comment, to create a native app you need to use Java. The best support software is Eclipse. Using Eclipse you can install the Android simulator which is very useful as you can test against all different Android firmwares.
When developing you need to take into account the many different screen sizes and resolutions, orientation etc.
Finally, if you like you can use something like phonegap to develop in HTML 5, CSS & JavaScript.
Hope this is what you were after.

Can I develop for Android without an Android phone?

I don't have an Android phone, is there still a way I can learn Android? How can I learn and what do I need?

Yes, absolutely ... the android SDK comes with an emulator, which, while quirky in some ways, does a pretty good job of letting you at least start learning and running most sample projects.
edit: This thread is somewhat old, but in recent times a new emulator has been released that is quite nice. Check out Genymotion :)

To add to Joel Martinezs answer,
Yes you can learn android dev without having a device, although it is really good to have one if you are into dev.
I started 3 months back and this is what i did
Downloaded the sdk and tools
Created a hello world app
Read about android sdk best practices in the developers site.
Looked at a lot of sample apps to know how they work
Started creating our app.
If I could do it, I am sure you could do it too. Android development is very easy to get started. You have all the info you need in the android developers site. If you need any help we are here at StackOVerFlow :-)

You need to fulfill the following requirements
Java knowledge
Android sdk
Android simulator
working knowledge of android OS(you can get it using emulator)
creativity and logics
Finally, a video tutorial(I suggest lynda.com)
Also take a look into android developer official site

Hey in addition to the above answers,
u should actually test on ur device when u r making an app that uses one of the following :
GPS, or wi-fi to get user location
when u want to use any phone sensor in ur app
when u r trying to integrate camera/ camcorder in your app
also u might need to actually test phone call/sms functionality integrated in an app
otherwise the emulator just works fine

As Joel puts it, you can use the emulator. Here is the developer website, and here is the page specific to the emulator.

Sure. Just get an android emulator and use that for your development. there are free emulators available online as well as tutorials and lots of books available for android OS development.

Android development with Windows XP and no Android device

Hi, I'm planning to learn android app development, but I don't have any Android device. Can I still learn it using my Windows machine?
If so, how to check the output? And can any one suggest me a good tutorial for beginners.

Yes you can develop android application.
You will require....
A IDE like Eclipse.
Android SDK --- This includes an android emulator.
Note:-- Some functionalities are not supported by android emulator and for that you will require android phone.

Yes you can use windows, and there is a simulator that shows a "virtual" android device thats part of the SDK

http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
The Android Guide has everything you need to know to get started. If you want to test on a real device (and you probably should if at all possible financially), you can either purchase a developer phone from Google or you can buy a cheap (relatively) used one on eBay.

you will need Eclipse and SDK for android
http://developer.android.com/index.html from this you will get lots of help

http://www.deviceanywhere.com/Test-Automation
visit the link above. This site lets you test through the web on real devices. It is a paid service though so you might have to decide which one would be cheaper, buying an android
phone or testing through this site.
Hope this helps.

Best platform for programming to IPad and new Windows and Android Pads

would like to build an app that can run on any of the new PAD's hitting market.
I don't want to limit our users to a specific OS.
What is the best solution to allow all these pads to use our app.
The app needs to be able to run offline.
Thanks!

You could write a web application and use HTML5 for off-line caching.
http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/offline.html
Alternatively, you could try and use Titanium Mobile.
http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/

You should also spend some time reading this discussions:
is-there-a-multiplatform-framework-for-developing-iphone-android-applications
technology-to-write-iphone-blackberry-and-android-phone-at-the-same-time

Have a look a MonoTouch, it will let you write all your logic in C# over all the main mobile platforms. However you still need custom UI code for each platform, but as least it will all be in C#.
(Better then having to use C#, Java and Objective C)

You could use Adobe Air that could works in most of Mobile/Tablet operating system Iphone,Android and Windows 7. but im not sure if Apple will approve your App if you plan to released to the App market.
Another way to think about it is to create an HTML resources and then integrated in away seems native to the system its more work but you will have a higher chance to get approved from apple and the app look more integrated with the OS .

The obvious -- and currently free -- answer is to use Adobe FlashBuilder to develop iOS apps. There is an iPhone and iPad emulator included. This does not use xcode, but you get most of the features to work with, and you can also develop Android apps from the same set of code. Further, with minor modifications for mouse usage, you can also have the apps run on any desktop as an Air app.
Adobe's website has detailed directions for how to create iOS apps on Windows with Adobe Air, though the most useful instructions for Air are from untoldentertainment.com.