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The iPhone and Android apps
The whole dashboard in your pocket, with Face ID or fingerprint unlock, native Google and Apple sign-in, a terminal keyboard that works, and photo uploads.
The bananana.dev apps for iPhone and Android open your company's dashboard with everything the web version has, plus a few things a phone does better.
Set up
- Install bananana.dev from the App Store or Google Play (during the beta, your IT team sends you a TestFlight or test link).
- Enter your dashboard address the first time.
- Sign in with your email and password (and code), Google, or on an iPhone, Apple.
- From then on the app locks itself with Face ID, Touch ID, your fingerprint or your phone's passcode when you open it, because it can open terminals and screens.
What's different from the browser
| iPhone | Android | |
|---|---|---|
| Unlock | Face ID or Touch ID | Fingerprint, face, or screen lock |
| Sign in | Google and Apple, natively | Google, natively (Apple sign-in isn't offered on Android) |
| Terminal | Extra keys row (Tab, Ctrl, Esc, arrows) | Extra keys row, and a keyboard mode that stops autocorrect from repeating or mangling what you type |
| Files | Upload photos and camera shots straight from the Files page | Upload from Photos or files |
| Notifications | Yes, end to end encrypted | Yes, end to end encrypted |
Notifications
After you first sign in, the app asks whether it may send notifications. Say yes and your phone hears about what your role covers:
- Alerts: a site down, a disk filling up, a hot sensor, a failed backup.
- Help requests: someone asked for help from the tray on a computer.
- Waiting for approval: a computer enrolled and needs approving.
- Failures: a failed automation, app install, rollout step or agent update.
Tap one to open its page. Turn each kind on or off, and see or remove your phones, under Settings. On Android each kind is also its own notification category in the phone's settings, so you can give alerts a different sound.
They're end to end encrypted: your phone makes a key that only it and your dashboard have, and your dashboard seals every notification with it. Apple, Google and bananana.dev carry the sealed message to your phone but can't read it. Signing out of the app stops notifications to that phone.
Tips
- Turn your phone sideways for a bigger picture when you open a computer's screen.
- Everything on the web dashboard works in the app, and everything you do is in the same audit log.
- Signing out of the app ends that session; you'll sign in again next time.