[wplug] APK Sideloading

[DK]

Excellent, I shall give that a try.

Thanks Pat


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com> wrote:

> On 2/24/2014 6:58 PM, DK wrote:
> > Is it possible to copy the APK from another Android device that has
> already
> > installed the app?
>
> If the other Android device is rooted (or just very permissive about
> what it lets you get access to), you can grab the APK file out of the
> device filesystem.  Look in the /data/app directory.
>
> If the other Android device is not rooted, but has access to the Google
> Play Store, you can install an application backup app (I personally use
> "AppMonster Free Backup Restore") and perform a backup.  This will dump
> all of the device's APKs (well, the ones that aren't protected, anyway)
> into a subdirectory on the SD card (or whatever pretends to be the
> non-internal storage, if you have a device with no SD slot).  You can
> then grab the APK out of the backup directory.
>
>
> >
> > Are there any other methods (albeit against Google Terms of Use) to
> > download the APK from Google?
>
> I'm not aware of any - and based on your description, I wouldn't trust
> that "apk-downloader" site, either....
>
> --Pat.
>
>
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