In order to install applications and games to your phone or tablet based on Android, you must use the Google Play application. However, the Creator Policy implies another way to install applications - directly from the device. To do this, download the APK file, transfer it to the device and install. This is done for those users who cannot connect to. Therefore, today we will talk about how this process is generally held.
What do we need:
- Device itself (smartphone or tablet).
- The APK file downloaded to the computer (for this you can use the most famous 4PDA forum).
- File manager installed on your device.
We go into our device and choose memory either on the flash card if it is available or in the device itself - it depends on your desire. For example, choose the main device. For convenience, we create a folder APK in it and put the downloaded APK files into it.
Pay your attention: if the application goes the cache, you need to install it by the path that is specified in the description. , we told earlier.
Files were on the device. Now we can disable it from the computer (you can not disable it) and open the file manager on the device. In our case, the "ES Explorer" is used, but you can use any other, up to the embedded file manager in your firmware, if any. We go into the section with the device, we find the folder where you transferred the file, open it and see the file (or files).
To install an APK file, you need to tap over it once or twice, depending on the file manager, and select "Set".
If you see the message "For security purposes, the installation of applications from unknown sources is blocked, click on the" Settings "button.
You will be taken to the Safety section. Here, put a tick next to the item "Unknown sources (allow the installation of applications from unknown sources)".
If everything is in order, click "Set".
Next, you will see permissions that the application receives. Be careful: if the application can call or send SMS messages, it is possible that it is created to steal the funds from the subscriber's personal account, since the same sms are sent in such a way that the owner of the device will never guess about it, while its personal account is slowly It is empty, because these messages are paid.
After the application is set, you will see the appropriate notice on the screen.
Everything is no longer required of you.
How to install an APK file on Android without a file manager?
Not all users have a file manager on devices, so installing APK files for them is a caring nightmare: because it is believed that nothing is impossible without a file manager. This is not true! You can use the browser to install the APK file - it is also accurately installed in your firmware.
So, we start any browser and in the address bar we write the following phrase: file: /// SDCard /. Thus, the file system of your device opens.
Well, then - the case of technology. Press the APK file and install it. In our case, however, when you click on the file, it is loaded. Then you need to call a curtain and press the file to the file to be installed again.
In any case, problems will not cause it.
You can ask your questions with the help of comments.
Some smartphone owners are not even suspected that games and applications can be downloaded not only from Google Play.. Like Windows, the Android operating system allows you to download and install the application as a separate file. But if computer programs have extension.exe, the installation file with a mobile utility has an extension.apk.
Consequences of installation
By default, almost any smartphone does not allow you to install programs and games from other sources. What is it connected with?
- First, Google receives a certain percentage from the sale of each application. She simply unprofitably give users the opportunity to look for games and programs anywhere else.
- Secondly, the Google Play online store greatly facilitates the search for any application, and also publishes reviews on it. In this regard, the company is trying to teach users to download only from Google Play.
- Thirdly, on third-party resources, under the guise of a very useful utility, a virus may well be hidden.
Attention: On some sites, viruses are also hidden under the guise of applications. Usually their action is to send SMS to expensive short numbers. Partly this problem is solved in Android 6.0, where you can prohibit a particular program any unwanted actions.
It should be remembered that if you decide to install the APK file on Android, then you should not hope for its subsequent update. The fact is that only those applications that were installed through the aforementioned Google Play are able to be updated on the smartphone.
Install APK file
Download file with extension.apk You can both with the help of a computer and immediately on your smartphone using the Internet browser. If you decide to use the computer, then you need to send a file to a mobile device. Make it easier through it by connecting the USB cable. Then it will only throw the APK file to the folder Download or any other.
If when connected to a computer, the machine does not want to provide you with access to the file system, then go to " Settings"And go to the" For developers».
Here you should check the checkbox " USB debugging».
Now you can definitely transfer the file to the smartphone. But that's not all! Now it needs to be launched, in order to start the installation process. To do this, use any file manager. It may be ES conductor or utility under the simplest name File Manager. ("Explorer" in the Russian version of the online store). Using such a program you need to go to the folder Download (if the APK file downloaded exactly there). Next remains only to click on the file.
The last step is to confirm the installation of the application. Along the way, the device will tell you about what permissions are required by the program. On Android 6.0 permissions are issued already during the use of the application, as it appeals to those or other parts of the operating system.
If when you click on the APK file, the window pops up on the inability of the installation, then you should use the following instructions:
Step 1. Exit the smartphone menu and go to " Settings».
Step 2.. Go to section " Safety».
Step 3.. Activate the checkbox near the item " unknown sources».
Step 4.. Now come back to the file manager to repeat the application setting.
On some smartphones working on a more relevant version of Android, pre-allowing installation from unknown sources is not necessary. It is enough just to run through the conductor downloaded APK file through the window that appears to go to the settings and move the slider "Allow installation from external sources" in active condition.
That's all. This installation is completed. You can see the new program shortcut in the menu - drag it to your desktop will have to manually, automatically it will not appear there.
Programs and games for all Android devices are installed, mainly through the (Google Play) Android Market, but you do not want to pay developers for their hard work, and you wish to use non-ignite games with impunity, then the next installation technique for you.
Where to throw games on android
There are two possible ways to install:
- Installing Ready * .apk Applications. This question is in which folder to throw games on Android, there is only new arrivals of the Android platform users.
- We are looking for on the Internet the necessary file * .apk with a game and preferably with proven sites, otherwise viruses on android are provided with you.
- Go to the menu Settings — Applications And let me install from unknown sources.
- We connect the tablet or phone via mini-USB or pull out the USB flash drive and insert it into the card reader.
- Copy the * .apk file to any place.
- Turn off from PC or insert a flash drive to a mobile device
- Open any available file manager. For example, the standard ThinkFree Office utility
- We are looking for a copied file * .apk and click to install
- We are looking for a set game label menu
- Install from the Internet. Installation passes through the site https://play.google.com/store, which means a program or game will have to buy, other ways to buy applications do not try. This method will mark any scope of the type where the game on android throw, they are installed independently and without user participation.
Go to Google Play, we are looking for the right game or app, boldly press on install, after which the application is downloaded independently and installed on your tablet or smartphone. It is clear that you have to have access to the Internet - Wi-Fi or any other connection method.
If you need to install games with cashem on Android, then you need to know the way where to install the game. You need to find out from the place where the files downloaded.
Android is an installation from the Official Google Play Apps. For most users, this method is the only one, because In principle, the programs in the Google Play are a great set, for every taste.
However, sometimes you need to install the application that is not in Google Play, but it is on third-party resources that distribute software for android in the form of installation APK files. Such a situation may occur, for example, when the user for any reason wants to install the old version of the application, which is no longer possible to install from the official store. In this material we will tell you how to install.apk file on Android.
Permission to install applications from unknown sources
By default, the android operating system disabled the ability to install from unknown sources, in order to secure the user from the penetration of viruses on its device. To install the application from the downloaded APK file, the user needs to give permission to such an installation. This is done as follows:
Now you can install the applications that you downloaded in the form of APK files.
Install the application from APK file
If the file downloaded from the Internet directly to the smartphone or tablet, then with the help of any file manager, find where it downloaded and just run to the installation, by its name. If you do not know where the file was cast, the article "" will help you in the search.
In case APK downloaded a computer, then your device to a computer USB port 
and copy the file to any convenient place in the internal memory of the device, where you can run.apk using the file manager.
At the beginning of the process, a window will appear, offering to familiarize yourself with the permissions that require an installed application for its work.
To complete the installation of APK, press the button " Further" or " Cancel"In case you have changed my mind. When the installation is completed, the application icon will appear on the desktop.
At the end of the article, I would like to warn that downloading Android applications from dubious sources increases the risk of infection with viruses of your smartphone or tablet. Download APK files only from well-known and well-proven sites.
From the foregoing, it can be concluded that the topic of today's publication will sound like this: as install APK file on Android. Many people do not know how to do it, although in fact everything is very simple.
That is, we still do not particularly know how it happened: just connected our mobile device to the Internet, went to the store, chose that it was necessary and click "Set". Everything is ready on it.
But now we will do quite differently, because we already have a pre-downloaded installation file in the "APK" format and Play Market itself in this case, we do not need at all:
So, so that you understand better, a file with such an extension, this is the Android program installer. For example, if you independently installed programs in Windows, you know that there are such files have an extension "EXE".
From all of the above, the question follows: how to install the file "apk", if not through the store? But how, read from this point very carefully. Further, everyone will be considered on the example of the same Navitel Navigator.
Although there is no difference here. For absolutely all applications, this procedure is exactly the same. All clarity in the article will be shown on the version of the Android 4.1.2 operating system.
And for a start, we need to make one very cunning setting. Right now select the "Settings" section:
And in the "Security tab", check the gallery opposite the "Unknown Sources" item. Screenshot below you to help:
Now we need to download the installation file itself with the extension "APK". In our case, we find it on the official website of the program in the "Download" section:
Pay attention to the picture above. Quite often when installing in this way, you will be offered to select the screen resolution of your device. But if you don't know anything about it, choose a version that is suitable for any display resolution.
After the APK file downloaded to the computer, it will need to be copied to the memory card of your smartphone or tablet. To do this, connect with a PC using a cable:
As a result, a message appears on your mobile device that the connection is installed. Now click the "Enable USB-Drive" button at the bottom of the screen:
After that, the Android device is determined on the computer as a regular flash drive to which you want to copy the installation file:
Then go back in the settings menu by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner:
And in the application window that opens, select "File Manager":
At this stage, you will find a list of folders, among which are ours with the name "download":
And now, finally, we see our APK file that you want to install the Android system:
We click on it with your finger and the process went:
Now we are waiting for the end of copying files and you can run:
In principle, on this all our science ends. We return to the section "Applications" and see the icon just installed Navitel:
By the way, now in order to save space on the device flash drive, you can delete the installation APK file itself. To do this, we return to the "Download" folder and we do uncomplicated combinations shown in the figure below:
That's all the wisdom, my dear friends, now you can say with confidence that you know exactly how to install it. Agree that there is really nothing complicated here.
And now a few words about the program itself, on the example of which we considered the principle of installing applications in this way. If you are a motorist, then you should appreciate the possibilities of Navitel Navigator.
Moreover, now you can easily install it on your mobile device and wear a full-fledged navigation system in pants pocket. You can only download from the official site (link at the beginning of the article) the necessary cards and throw them into the appropriate folders:
By the way, it is worth saying that the structure of the Navitel folder on android is completely identical. So learn and use on health, so as not to get lost. 😉
And on this note, allow you to declare if questions arise, I ask for a mercy in the comments to the article. And now the time has come full relaxation and the author slowly but confidently immersed in the trance.
