Mobile Connect Android 5.0 User Guide

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Additional Feature Information

SonicWall Mobile Connect for Android continues to support the following features:

  • Material Design - Mobile Connect has been redesigned according to Android's material design guidelines, Google's comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interactive design across platforms and devices that was broadly introduced in Android 5.0.

  • Files Bookmarks - Files Bookmarks support FTP and SFTP file server Bookmarks in addition to CIFS file Bookmarks.

  • SAML Authentication - The latest Mobile Connect release now supports SAML authentication with UTM and SMA 1000 appliances, enabling Mobile Connect to authenticate against third‑party SAML IdP servers.
  • HTML5 Bookmarks Enhancements - Mobile Connect supports in-app access with Single Sign-On for HTML5 Bookmarks. The following third party apps are supported:

    • Microsoft App Mobile

    • Remoter VNC

    • Termius

    • RealVNC (supported for VNC bookmarks on Android)

    • Windows App (supported for RDP bookmarks)

    HTML5 Bookmarks are displayed natively within Mobile Connect and provide a seamless and more secure user experience, including support for Single Sign-On.

  • Additional Fingerprint Authentication Support - Mobile Connect now supports Fingerprint Authentication for VPN connections to supported SMA 1000 Series Appliances.
  • Capture ATP Integration - Uploaded files can be scanned by the SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection service. A SonicWallSMA 1000 Series Appliance with Capture ATP add-on is required.
  • SAML IdP authentication for SMA 1000 - Mobile Connect supports connecting to SMA 1000 Series Appliances configured with SAML 2.0 IdP.