Android Apps to Manage Multiple User Accounts on single Device

Before knowing multiple Android users, it should know the basic concepts involved. Here are the primary terms used when describing accounts and Android users.

User — Every user is intended to be used by a different physical person. Each user has difference application data and unique settings and user interface to explicitly switch between user and it run in the background when another user is active. Secondary users can be created either directly via the primary user interface.

Account — Accounts are contained within a user but not defined by a user. Users and profiles contain their own different accounts but are not required to have accounts to be functional and list of accounts differs by user.

Profile — It has separated app data but shares some system-wide. A user can have multiple profiles. They are created via Device Administration application. Profiles don’t live beyond the lifetime of the creating user.

User types

App — Application’s data exists within associated user. App data is sandboxed from other applications within the same user and can interact.

Primary — The first user added to a device and primary user cannot remove except factory reset and user also has some special right and settings only it can set.

Secondary — In this any other user added to the device other than the primary user and can be removed by them and can’t impact other users on a device. Secondary users run in the background and will have network connectivity.

Guest — Guest user is a temporary secondary user with an option to quick delete the guest user. There can be only one guest user at a time.

Effects

Any users are added to a device and some functionality will reduce when another user is in the forefront. Since app data is separated by user and differs by user.

The default state is only the primary user has full access to phone calls and texts but secondary user receive inbound calls but cannot send or receive texts. The primary user must enable these functions for others.

Here are aspects of behaviour when employing multiple users on device:

Notifications will appear for all accounts of a single user.

Notifications for other users will not appear until they are active.

Each user gets own workspace to install and place apps.