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I'm a big fan of the "Island" app [0], which lets you set up a locally-administered Android for Work profile. It's great for, say, cloning a second copy of a messaging app for an alternate account.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/closed-b...

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It's too bad Google itself only allows you to do that with a Gmail for Business account.

I had to use a profile for my banking app to isolate it from all my personal apps, instead. But it seems that Google doesn't' even care that much about the multi-profile functionality, as it seems to crash quite often and has other issues. I imagine they don't put it through a lot of Q&A with each new Android release.

Even so, having to change between profiles often just to get that kind of isolation is quite frustrating.

Interesting. A step beyond Xposed and Xprivacy.

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