
Below is a screenshot I took with my Samsung Tab E LTE tablet (with the side bar expanded): The VMware Horizon View Mobile client for Android allows you to connect to your VDI desktop remotely using your Android based phone or tablet. You can download the VMware View client for Android from the App store ( link here). While a thin client or zero client can be used, this is beyond the scope of this post as here we are only discussing the VMware View client for Android. What is the VMware Horizon View Mobile client for AndroidĪs mentioned above, to access one’s virtualized desktop a client is needed.

In special case or large environments, enormous cost savings can be realized when implementing VDI. When you tie this on to an advanced security technology such as Duo’s MFA product, you can’t go wrong! The technology is also particularly interesting in the fact that it provides amazing remote access capabilities as one can access their desktop very easily with the VMware View Client. This allows the business to utilize all the awesome technologies that virtualization brings (DRS, High Availability, Backup/DR, high performance, reduced hardware costs) and provide rich computing environments to their users. When a business uses VDI, they virtualize their desktops and use either thin clients, zero clients, or the view client to access these virtualized desktops. VDI stands for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. VMware Hoirzon View is a product and solution that enables VDI technology for a business. The VMware Horizon Client mobile app for android is available at: What is VMware Horizon View I’ll be including a couple screenshots as well to give an idea as to how the interface and resolution looks on the tablet itself.

Let’s start off by briefly explaining what VMware Horizon View is, what the client does, and finally the review. I use the android client regularly on my Samsung Tab E LTE tablet, and somewhat infrequently on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ mobile phone (due to the smaller screen). Well, after using the VMware Horizon Client mobile app (for Android) for a year, I finally decided to do a little write up and review.
