VMware Horizon Client for Android 2111.1 Release Notes

VMware Horizon Client for Android 2111.1 | 09 DEC 2021 Check for additions and updates to these release notes.

Key Features

VMware Horizon Client for Android makes it easy to access remote desktops and published applications from your Android tablet or phone with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

• Work the way you want to - Use your Android tablet or phone to use remote desktops and published applications from any location. Support for the PCoIP display protocol and the VMware Blast display protocol from VMware means that your remote desktop and published application is fast and responsive, regardless of where you are.
• Best of both worlds - For the mobile device world, Horizon Client supports native Android gestures for quick and easy navigation around a remote desktop or published application. For the Windows world, the full-screen touchpad feature lets you touch anywhere on the screen to move the mouse pointer around the remote desktop or published application. Bridging both worlds, the Unity Touch sidebar makes it easy to browse, search, open, and close Windows applications and files, minimize windows, and switch between running applications, all without using the Windows Start menu or Taskbar.
• Simple connectivity - Horizon Client for Android is tightly integrated with VMware Horizon for simple setup and connectivity. Quickly reconnect to a remote desktop or published application by selecting it from the Recent tab.
• Unmatched performance - The adaptive capabilities of the PCoIP display protocol and the VMware Blast display protocol mean your remote desktop or published application is fast and responsive regardless of whether you are connecting over your corporate WiFi network or from your 3G, 4G, or LTE connected Android tablet or phone.
• Secure from any location - At your desk or away from the office, your data is always secure. With RSA soft token integration, you need enter only your RSA PIN into Horizon Client when RSA authentication is required. No need for an RSA hardware token or RSA software token utility. Horizon Client also supports RADIUS authentication.

What's New

Horizon Client for Android 2111.1 fixes an issue with USB redirection for Android 11 or Android 12.

• When using USB redirection feature with Horizon client for Android version 2111 on an Android 11 or 12 device, occasionally the client quits unexpectedly. The new version 2111.1 fixes this issue.

Horizon Client for Android 2111 includes the following new features. For information about new remote desktop features for Android 2111, see the VMware Horizon 8 2111 Release Notes.

• Multi-monitor display support for Samsung DeX

  You can connect to an external monitor from your Dex-enabled Samsung devices.

• Signature verification for enrolled devices including Chromebook and Android devices

  You can use the Google Admin console to configure a verification check of the APK signature when users start Horizon Client. The setting-list section includes the following new application properties: check_signature , signatures , algorithm, and digest. See Application Settings.

Internationalization

For Horizon Client for Android, both the user interface and the documentation are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.

Before You Begin

• Horizon Client for Android requires the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or later operating system.
• Horizon Client for Android is supported with the latest maintenance release of Horizon 7 version 7.5 and later releases.
• When you install Horizon Client for Android, you are prompted to let the app read phone status and identity. This prompt relates to the RSA soft token integration feature. The prompt is requesting permission to read the state of the phone. This permission does not allow the app to make a phone call or send a message. You can safely grant this permission.
• Install and upgrade Horizon Client for Android just as you do any other Android app. For example, you can get the latest version of the app from Google Play or the Amazon Appstore for Android. For a link to the Horizon Client app in one of these stores, go to the Horizon Client Downloads page.
• For system requirements and installation instructions, see the VMware Horizon Client for Android Installation and Setup Guide.

Resolved Issues

• In version 2111, USB redirection could unexpectedly close the client on Android 11 or Android 12. Version 2111.1 resolves the issue.

Known Issues

• On certain Android devices, when you use the client drive redirection feature to copy, rename, or create files on a redirected external SD card, you receive the error You need permission to perform this action. This problem occurs if the Android device prevents third-party apps from getting automatic permission to put files on an external SD card.

  Workaround: None.

• On an Android 10 (Q) device, gesture navigation is enabled by default. This feature conflicts with the Unity Touch feature in some cases. When a conflict occurs, you might not be able to open the Unity Touch sidebar by sliding from the left edge.

  Workaround: Use the floating handle to open the Unity Touch sidebar.

• On an Android 10 (Q) device, you cannot copy and paste text from the client device to a remote desktop or published application.

  Workaround: None.

• If you use a NAT64 network that is shared from a macOS 10.14 or later system, internet access is not available on an Android device and Horizon Client for Android cannot connect to a server.

  Workaround: Use an earlier macOS version to share the NAT64 network, for example, use macOS version 10.11.6.

• When Horizon Client for Android is installed on a Chromebook and you are using a NAT64 network, Horizon Client for Android cannot resolve an IPv4 literal address when you try to connect to a server in an IPv6 environment.

  Workaround: Use a fully qualified domain name when you connect to the server.

• When you connect to a remote desktop with the High Quality Mode option enabled, if you change the resolution from the Auto-fit resolution option to another resolution in the Horizon Client settings, and then change the resolution back to the Auto-fit resolution option, Horizon Client uses the wrong resolution.

  Workaround: Log off and reconnect to the remote desktop.

• Some Horizon Client settings are not saved for multiple sessions. For example, if you deselect the Local storage redirection > Enable auto redirect for mounted storage option, the option is selected after you disconnect and then reconnect to a remote desktop session. This issue occurs when you install Horizon Client for Android on a Chromebook or on an Android device in DeX desktop mode.

  Workaround: None.

• When using seamless window mode on a Chromebook with an external display, moving the application session window between the client display and the external display is difficult.

  Workaround: When moving the session window from the client display to an external display, move your cursor to the top of the window. Keep pressing the left mouse button until only about a quarter of the session window remains on the client display. After you release the mouse button, the session window moves to the external display. Follow the same procedure to move the session window from an external display to the client display.

• When you use the VMware Blast display protocol to connect to a remote desktop or published application with a non-English input method, you might not be able to enter certain symbols.

  Workaround: Use the local input buffer, or connect to the remote desktop or published application with the PCoIP display protocol.

• If you use an Android 7.0 Nougat device to reconnect to an RDS host that is connected to a per-device license server, Horizon Client generates another client ID after user data is cleared.

  Workaround: None.

• On some Android devices, certain keys introduce white spaces when you connect to a remote desktop and input text with Horizon Client.

  Workaround: Turn off predictive text for the keyboard in the Android Settings app.

• The Unity Touch sidebar cannot show changes in the All Programs menu for new software that you install during that same session.

  Workaround: To see items for new software that you recently installed, disconnect from the desktop and then connect again.

• The Shift key in the top row of the onscreen keyboard or in the navigation keys is for entering key combinations, such as Ctrl+Shift. If you need to capitalize a letter or type an exclamation point (!) or question mark (?) or other symbol that you create by using the Shift key, use the up arrow as you would in the standard onscreen keyboard.

  Workaround: None

• Because an Android device does not have a persistent ID, the device's MAC address is used to generate an ID for the license. If a device's MAC address cannot be detected, its SIM is used instead. If neither the MAC address nor SIM can be detected, a random ID is generated for the device. In certain circumstances, this process can result in multiple licenses being issued to the same device.

  Workaround: An administrator can remove the inactive licenses.

• If you use the USB redirection feature to share a USB device with a remote desktop or published application, and then later unshare the USB device with the remote desktop or published application, the USB device no longer appears in the remote desktop or published application, but it also no longer appears on the local Android device.

  Workaround: This problem is a third-party issue. Sometimes, you can resolve this issue by plugging the USB device back into the Android device.

• Sharing a USB device fails and the error "The device <devicename> was grabbed by another application!" appears in Horizon Client.

  Workaround: Open the USB redirection user interface in Horizon Client and select the USB device. USB redirection now works as expected.