just out of curiosity, has anyone installed any apps that are non android market? if so, which ones have you installed? i have "Hi yahoo" on my eris but i dont like it too much. i was wondering if i could go to yahoo's website and download yahoo messenger to my eris instead?
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Is there any way I can extract the .apk for an app I downloaded and installed from the market? So I can store the .apk on my PC
View 7 Replies View RelatedI don't think this is an issue specific to my phone model. When I go into the Android Market (or Play Store) and I look at my apps it previously showed purchased apps but now it shows all the apps I've ever installed. If I want to install an app I purchased previously I have to search through all the hundreds of apps I have ever installed!
I've tried to find a resolution via Google but I keep getting results showing how to clear market search history.
Like I said, previously before I upgraded to ICS the market only showed installed apps and purchased apps that I haven't installed, now it shows every app I have ever installed and it seems to include apps I installed on my android tablet!
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I want to share applications with a friend of mine. Is there an application that will let me send him a market link for applications that I have already installed on my phone?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed a non-market .apk app on my new Evo using Astro File Manager, by clicking the install button in the file manager interface. But how do I actually launch the app to use it now that it is installed? I can't find an icon or a place to make a shortcut to.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently changed my ROM, and as soon as done, started having lots of problems installing apps:
* the play store on my computer would report applications not available for my device, even though I had downloaded and installed them before
* the search in the phone play store application could not find those apps, and when given a direct link would show them as incompatible
* modded version of vending.apk failed to download with the following error: "app name" could not be downloaded due to an error. (942)
* trying to install the backed up apk manually gave me the error "Application not installed"
* restoring titanium backup failed and left the restore process hanging
* manually copying the apk to /system/app/ and fixing the permissions still did not show the app
I tried many things, different roms, different ril, different mods of Vending.apk and GoogleServicesFramework.apk, clearing data and cache, deleting files in .android_secure, etc, nothing worked. Searching the forum brought up many posts about other people with the same problem, but no working solution.
Finally, I found the solution: I was using the wrong gapps package!The one I had flashed was for 2.3.2, my previous rom, whereas the new one was based on 2.3.7. It did not occur to me, that there could be enough changes to break market functionality, since I was sticking to gingerbread.
If you have the same problem, head to [URL] ..... and pay close attention to the table matching the right google apps package to your android version. Download it, and flash through recovery.
When I load a new ROM and need to reinstall my apps there are usually a couple I don't want to install. Is there anyway to remove them from the "Not Installed" under "My Apps"? It seems like since I once downloaded and installed an app, it will always be there.
If I can't remove them, then I can't use the bulk install option and have to manually start all the installs.
Ive installed apps to my hero from my pc, but they arnt showing up in the market as being "installed", so they can be updated, etc.is there a way around this, & where do the apps get installed (directory) on phone.1 last think, if i install apps on my sd card & dont want them, do i have to uninstall them, or can i just delete them off the sd card?my phone is rooted, does this effect the phones ability to update itself to 1.6, im running 1.5
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed BB v0.5 on my Droid 1 and now I can't find any apps on the Market. Any one else having this issue?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have alot (and I mean ALOT) of apps on my Xperia, so I get around 5 app updates a day, which is now starting to agitate me because most of them are the same apps everyday needing updates.
Today I heard about an update for the market that includes an auto update feature for installed apps. But I, like many others, do not see this option on the market.
Does anyone have any idea how to get it? or if I can't get it, when can I?
I have downloaded two APP directly from a developers website to my Sprint HTC EVO. How do I uninstall one of the APPs if I do not want it any more?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI don't know if I just opened a can of worms but is this even possible? I have a folder of .apks of my programs that I use in case I need to wipe my phone, and I hate having to query the market everytime I need to re-download one of my apps.What I'd like to do is be able to generate a functional .apk file from an application I already have installed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am wondering if I am able to detect if my application was installed with Android Market (it's in the download list of the Market and eligible for update checks) or it's not?It would be a very good point to detect if the app has been installed without, as that can mean it was stolen and installed from SDcard.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf an Android 2.2 Tablet doesnt have the Android market Place then is there any simple method to install various third party android .apk files directly from the webpage to the Internet Tablet
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat is the easiest way to programmatically check if the Market app is installed?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an app which is linked to (via an Android Market URL) on several different websites. What I need to implement is a way to determine where my users came from. Is there a way to determine the referring URL that the user followed to download my app via the Android Market?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an app that was installed via Android Market. And so, the Android Market knows when new versions are out and notifies me of an update. Titanium Backup calls this the 'Market Link', not sure what else it could be called.
how would I go about 'disconnecting' the app from the Market? Deleting the market link as if it were side-loaded?
Yes, I know this means no more updates for the app etc. Which is actually what I'm after.
I'm using a SGS - DocRom V9.6 with Speedmod Kernel k13a
I know my question answers but since there's a lot of you who really spend your time scrutinizing your rank, downloads and all, I'm trying it maybe someone came up with empiric science on this one :
Does anyone understood even bits of how the market ranks apps in the market ?
I usually don't look at stats but following another post on this topic, I counted my rank in my category ... 565 ... Ouch that hurts! Especially when half the apps in front of mine, are crap apps with less downloads and ratings as low as 1 star :).
Not that it would make a difference being rank 250 instead of 565...But this is humiliating a little :s
Since my app has been on the market for one month, i'm wondering if age matters ...
I know I should have asked in the market "black hole of hell " google group but the name says it all. And I'm sure some of you already figured out some of the black magic used by the Market to rank apps.
I am developing a launcher application. I want to display the installed applications in categories like Android Market. Say if i have installed an application from category Communication, I want to show that application under Communication category in my launcher. How do i get the category (Android Market category) information of an application?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have developed a small android application and then installed the app using ADB and uploaded the same app with a higher version number (not the string value, but the integer field) to Android market place. I get no notification saying there is an update available for my app. Under Market -> My Downloads tab in Market, the app does not show as installed. When browsing the Market, the app shows as installed but does not say "update available". When I browse to the application and touch install, however, I do receive an "overwrite previous version" warning. Steps i followed: I compiled the APK as unsigned and then created the Private key and singed the app. Then installed the app on my device using ADB. Changed the VersionCode on Manifest file with higher version and then re-compiled the code. Singed the new version of APK and then published the same on Android Market. I waited for more than 12 hours but never get the notification on checking Market->My Downloads. It would be great if some one has tried the similar things, then plz do guide me.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway to do this? I hav no us for a couple of the pre-installed apps and would really like to get rid of them to free up space.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have recently purchased an unlocked HTC Desire. As you may or may not know, here in Australia the only carrier of the Desire is Telstra. However I use 3 mobile so that's the reason I purchased an unlocked device.
My problem is that my phone has about a dozen or more apps which are installed by Telstra and uninstallable. Most of them are 100% useless because I'm not even on their network and I'd like them out of my applications list.
I've had a read around and I saw something about being able to remove them by deleting the file and then uninstalling them using a command prompt program.
Would anyone please be able to give me detailed instructions on how to do this because I'm not sure how to find the system/apps folder and I'm also not sure on how to get the command prompt thing to work.
I have some pre-installed applications on my G1 (IM, HiDialer, some Chinese appplications etc.) But i cannot uninstall them. It just says: uninstall not succesful. I read some other topics about this and there werent many answers. Only thing some people reply is just: get rooted. What if I am rooted? Then how do I uninstall them?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working on an app that will be shipped on some phones. I have been thinking about how to update them once a new version is ready. How that would work for a pre-installed app? As an initial thought I think I could pop up a message letting the user know there is a new version ready, but if I could avoid unnecessary request to the server it would be better. If a google engineer comes across this please give me a hint as you do this for Google Maps.
View 17 Replies View RelatedHow can I get the version information of the current installed apps on my phone. if I do : Package Manager packageManager = getPackageManager(); List<PackageInfo> packs = package Manager. getInstalledPackages(0); int size = packs.size(); apps += " Total apps = "+ size+" "; for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { PackageInfo p = packs.get(i); apps += "App name: " + p.applicationInfo.loadLabel(packageManager).toString(); apps += "Package name: " + p.packageName; apps += "Version name: " + p.versionName; apps += ""; } tv.setText ("Installed apps:"+apps); I get all the apps currently installed. I wasn't able to figure out how to extract their correspondent version information.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a general idea of how to do it but would like some instuctions. If im correct first u download astro then use emulator but without guide i wont do it so if anyone can give me instruction i have a droid x.
View 2 Replies View RelatedRecently, I had to factory reset my Droid X running Froyo. I had downloaded some nice apps. But, when I restored my data, my apps were gone. Is there a list my downloaded apps stored someplace? Perhaps I missed a setting to do this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a HTC desire with Froyo 2.2, I'm not sure whether this is a Froyo issue but some of the apps I install are not visible in my all apps view, when I go to the market screen it says that they are installed and I can open them from there but they do not appear as a widget or app anywhere on my phone. The latest app to not install properly is the droid comic viewer, again I can use it from the market screen but can't find it anywhere else on the phone.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo what's the point in an apk installer? I've installed a few apps without it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHas anyone noticed that when you install an application manually vs a downloaded one from the market it doesn't update when a newer version comes out?
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