[Conner Participant 26 April 2022 Conner Participant]

With the introduction of Google play protect in the play store. It acts as a malware detector and issues warning message tom apps that doesn’t abide by google rules for an application. If your app isn’t listed in the play store, it may get a warning message before installing the app even if it is malware free.
You can disable the play protect through the play store to remove this warning message and do a silent installation on the device.

[William Participant 26 April 2022 William Participant]

@conner thanks for that. Do we have an option to disable the play protect for my user devices over the air. So I can do a silent app installation remotely.

[Johan Hexnode 26 April 2022 Johan Moderator]

Hey @william,
Welcome to the Hexnode community.

Currently, Hexnode UEM does not provide an option to disable the Google Play Protect feature in the Play Store. However, you can disable the Google Play Store as a workaround, which would also disable the Google Play Protect feature. Disable the Google Play Store option in the Advanced Restrictions tab under Android policies. This feature is only supported on devices running Samsung Knox 1.0 and above.

We advise you not to disable Google Play Protect as it is excellent at detecting malware at the application level. Instead, upload your application to the Managed Google Play Store as a private app and deploy it via Hexnode UEM as a safer alternative. For this, the app will have to follow Google’s safety guidelines.

Hope that helps your query.
Cheers!
Johan Blake
Hexnode UEM

[_patricia_ Participant 28 April 2022 _patricia_ Participant]

As Johan suggested, disabling google play would be a bad idea because it acts as an anti-virus for your mobile. But every app flagged by the play protect need not be a virus or threat to the device. Most in house apps built by the organization will be secure and as it is a private application, it will not be available in play store. So google may wrongly flag that app and show a warning message just because it cannot recognize the source of the app.