Highlights
Support for Android 13.
Support for dual Protocol policies: one for when the Client is on the internal network and another for when it is not. See Location Detector. This is typically used to restrict access less for local than for Internet-connected Clients. (Note that "local" may include VPN-connected Clients unless you take steps to exclude them.)
Support for the new Global Desktop feature, which allows users to be assigned synchronized persistent desktops with automatic failover. Global desktops are a selective feature that is currently managed almost entirely by the Workspot Control API. Contact Workspot for more information.
Support for Azure AD sign-in to Workspot desktops. Previously, Azure AD sign-in was limited to the Client and Control but was not available for Workspot desktops, which used AD.
Improvements in the speed and reliability of connections by tracking the user's desktop by hostname (which never changes) in addition to its IP address and DNS (which sometimes do, especially after power management events.
When connecting, the Client compares the expected value of the remote desktop's RDP thumbprint to the one provided directly by the RDP protocol, ensuring that it is talking to the correct (genuine) target system, and closing the connection with a warning message if not.
System Requirements
Android 13, 12, and Dex
Installation
The current production version of the Client is available in the Google Play Store.
Under "About This App" in the Play Store page, verify that it is the version you are expecting.
Install the version normally.
Known Issues
When a power-managed desktop resumes from sleep, the connection may time out prematurely with the error "There was a problem starting your desktop. Please contact your administrator." The end-user should retry the connection before contacting the administrator, since this usually works.
With Workspot Web Apps, the Client ignores any URLs the administrator has added to Control's URL blacklist, allowing access to these sites.
Copy and paste are always enabled in Workspot Web Apps, regardless of the setting of "Allow Copy and Paste" in Control's Security Policies. Workaround: Deny access to Web Apps to users you want to prevent from Copy/Pasting.
The Client reports "Text Copied" not just when text is copied, but also when it is pasted.
Data copied from applications that provide formatted data only in RTF format (usually Windows applications) will be pasted as plain text in applications that don't support RTF. Workaround: Save or export the data to a file instead, using a format supported by both applications.
Data provided in RTF format by a Windows application may have a noticeable delay before being pasted locally. This is due to the Client having to request that the data be supplied again in a locally supported format (such as HTML).
The Android clipboard does not support complex HTML constructs such as tables. HTML tags such as <table> and <td> are rendered as plain text.
If you disable and then re-enable Samsung Dex while the Client is open, the Client crashes and must be relaunched.
Sometimes, when downloading large files, an ‘ApplicationNotResponding’ popup appears. Workaround: Select the “Close” option and relaunch.
When disconnecting from a RAILS application, a blank screen is shown for several seconds while the connection closes.
It is occasionally possible to crash the Client by typing characters as quickly as possible, without any pauses, on the Android on-screen keyboard. This usually requires at least a couple of hundred keystrokes.
When locking/unlocking a connected desktop, the screen is not resized.
The remote application cursor and the Workspot Client cursor are briefly visible at the same time when connecting or reconnecting to a Workspot desktop or app, or when the Client is locked or unlocked.
RAIL apps, once minimized in zoom mode, do not restore.
When listing applications in the application switcher, the same RAIL app may be listed more than once.