SkieWhat is the Skie Provision app?
The Skie Provision app is a native Android app on Google Play that provisions other devices with Skie. You install it on an Android phone, sign in through a browser, pair with the freshly reset device over Wi-Fi and follow a guided stepper. It replaces the laptop and the adb command for most setups.
Not every school office has a spare laptop and the patience to install adb. The Provision app puts the same job on an Android phone. It is a normal app you find on Google Play, separate from the Skie app that ends up on managed devices, which is installed only through provisioning.
The flow is guided. You open the app and pass the gate for your kind of customer, either parent or institute. You sign in through your browser. You choose the student and group, and the app fetches the one-time enrolment token for you. Then you pair with the reset device over Wi-Fi, and a stepper takes you through the stages with live progress and a clear reason if something fails.
The app has rules of its own that protect you. It never provisions the phone it is running on, so you cannot accidentally lock your own handset. It asks you to confirm you are provisioning the right device before it commits. Model and licence checks happen before anything is installed.
The app also contains a web dashboard view, so an admin can check the result without leaving the app. Today pairing is over Wi-Fi. A wired route is not available yet, and the team is working on it.
Practical tip: install the Provision app on a spare phone kept for setup days, and charge it with the tablets. If you prefer a computer, laptop provisioning does the same thing with adb.
- Native app on Google Play
- Gate, browser sign-in, Wi-Fi pairing, stepper
- Live progress and failure reasons
- Never provisions its own phone