You can set a device name for a mobile app using the Aternity Mobile SDK, to display custom device names in the dashboards. In Android, the Aternity class provides an instance method called setDeviceName for setting the device name.

For example, you can use setDeviceName to implement your company's device naming policy on employees' personal devices.

In addition to using this method, you can also set this property when the Android app initializes with init and setting the property ATERNITY_CONFIG_DEVICE_NAME.

Since this is an instance method, you need to call this with an instantiated object. The Aternity class provides the getInstance method which returns a singleton object. You should call the class's methods using the singleton object, to avoid manually creating and maintaining the Aternity object.

Before you begin

• The system requirements must conform to those of the Aternity Android Mobile SDK.

• Integrate and initialize the Aternity Android SDK into your app development environment. For details, see Integrate and Initialize the Aternity Android SDK into your App

• Whenever a class uses the Aternity Android SDK API methods, you must add the statement:

  import com.aternity.sdk.Aternity;

Method Definition

In Android, the Aternity class provides an instance method called setDeviceName for setting the device name.

void setDeviceName(String name);

Example

//Since this is an instance method, use getInstance to return a singleton object.

Aternity.getInstance().setDeviceName("Brandi_Calton_Tablet");