In summary then, if you don't have BES 10, you don't get to do sideloading. You can do a similar thing with Android, and I tend to tell my clients to avoid doing it at all costs as it opens up all sorts of security problems. It's also likely to be a pain to have to do that if you have any number of devices to manage. You can turn off the restrictions entirely by enabling 'developer mode' on the device but this will open up the device entirely. This is one of the key precepts of mobile device management (MDM), and sure enough on BES 10 you can create policies to control device downloads, create whitelists of publicly-available App World apps that the user can install and relevantly to this part of the discussion, and finally the sideloading bit: publishing private apps to distribute within the organisation. It makes much more sense to control the catalogue of apps that a user can have centrally. Blast through the security warnings and on it went.īack to the curated store world, and that sort of thing is bad news. They just opened their browser, put in a URL to a. On BBOS7 and earlier versions, users could install apps by via an 'over-the-air install'. With BB10, the only way to deliver private, sideloaded apps is via BES 10. Although that's Windows 8, the same principle applies.) (Mary Jo Foley has an article where she explains Windows 8 sideloading. This process of being able to load apps is called sideloading. Companies will want to install their own software that bypasses the store controls - after all, it's their users and their devices. But there has to be some softening of that.

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