Thanks Jacqueline & Shawn,
I did more testing at Verizon, and it seems several of these methods
work reliably and can be mastered by most Android owners.
Richard
On 6/3/2012 9:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/3/12 5:16 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
Are you certain that this works this easily on most Android devices?
From my little testing, this didn't seem to work reliably. I had to use
an app like tAttachApkInstaller (specifically designed to install apk's
sent by email), but even that didn't seem to work reliably or easily on
the half-dozen phones I tried at Verizon.
If you send the apk as an email attachment, clicking the link in the
email will install the app provided the customer reads the email on
their Android device.
There are many other ways too, but they usually involved an Android
file manager. Dropbox is another easy, direct way to install but not
all your customers may have that.
I tested by sending an email to my gmail account with an apk attached.
Gmail showed the attachment as an enclosure with a button next to it
titled "Install". Clicking that installed the app right from email.
I didn't try with my regular email account, so maybe it would be
different. Or maybe it depends on the version of the Android OS or the
mail client the OEM installs. But I'm with Shawn, just about every
android user knows how to get an apk to their device. Like him, I was
doing it within a day or two after getting my first Android tablet.
There are so many ways to transfer an apk that I'd be surprised if any
but the very newest android user didn't know how. You can:
1. Attach the device to the computer via cable and drag the apk over.
Open it using the built-in file manager on the device and it will
install.
2. Drag it to a dropbox folder (or any other cloud service,) open it
in dropbox on the device, it installs.
3. Email it to yourself. If the enclosure doesn't install when you
click it (it did for me,) it will download instead. Then use the file
manager to click it to install.
4. Link to a download on a web page. The android browser will download
it from the link. When the notification appears that the download is
complete, tap the message in the notification bar and it installs. Or
at any time later, select "Downloads" from the browser menu and tap on
the downloaded file in the list to install it. (This is another easy
option.)
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