Android :: Programmatically Installing A 3rd Party App Onto The SD Card
May 28, 2010
I am trying to install a 3rd party free app through code. I initially download the apk from the web-site (androidfreeware.org), store it on a SD Card. I am using an emulator to check whether my app is working properly or not. I have attached a SD card to the currently running avd.
Then when the user clicks on the Install, I use this code to install it on the SD card.
CODE:.............
I read somewhere that in order to install 3rd party apps we need to set the value of INSTALL_NON_MARKET_APPS to 1. Do we need to set any permission in the manifest file. Also, when I checked logcat I got the following error
Could not read the AndroidManifest.xml file of /sdcard/test.apk and then it threw a FileNotFound Exception
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Jul 5, 2012
I have a Garmin asus a50 which is running android 1.6 donut. i would like to upgrade to android 2.2 froyo - where can i get official or unofficial ROM for my device.
here is what i have done till now.
-I have rooted my phone.
-I have checked the system requirement it meeting the requirements.
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Feb 9, 2010
I am sorta shocked, only for the fact that he freakd out that I had installed a new custom boot screen and told him that rooting doesn't neccessarily remove anything sprint puts on the phone. I guess more shocked that he knew what it was.
Regardless, if I own the phone, I am going to do what ever hat I want to it even if it voids the warranty because that shouldn't be an issue.
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Oct 17, 2010
I as i know we can change the installing location With android SDK , using USB cable But i wanna know is it possible to change the installing location Programmatically? is it yes how?
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Jul 14, 2009
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about programmatically getting the sms messages off of your phone's sim card on an android platform. I would like to write a program that allows you to save either individual messages or entire threads to the sd card, but after looking around for a bit, I have discovered that google decided to take out that api from the current android sdk. I saw in a few places that there are hidden apis for this, but no one knew what they were or how to use them.
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Nov 16, 2010
I uploaded an apk file to a web server and attempted to access the link from the browser on the phone. When I attempt to download from that link I receive an error message that reads "An SD card is required to download." I do not have an SD card installed, but the internal memory is not full, so I would expect the app to install to internal memory.
The obvious solution is to install an SD Card. Putting an SD card in the device does allow the app to install. So, the question is why is this necessary?
Nowhere in my app do I specify that this needs to be installed on an SD Card. I've tried leaving the installLocation blank and setting it to "auto" and "internalOnly". I've scoured the forums and not found a reason for this.
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Sep 16, 2010
I mounted my sd card as a readable disk and put about 3gbs of APK files onto it. But i cannot find them when I go through my phone is there anyway/app i can use to install apps FROM my sd card?
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Feb 13, 2009
I hope you guys can implement that in the next android updates. It is really cool that all the applications are free, but the G1 phone doesn't have a lot of on board memory, so please implement the feature to install applications on the SD Card. That is the only comment I have. A lot of people are Jailbreaking their phones just so they can get to that feature. Please consider it. Thank you. One more thing-If you can make it possible to save the browser cache data on the SD card as well will be awesome.
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Aug 27, 2010
Right now i have developed an android application for the client perpose, whose size is 54 MB, from which 52 MB of only Images/Photos.
[I need to keep images in "drawable" folder ]
So i want to install it in sd-card on Android SDK 2.2 for that i have already set android:installLocation="preferExternal" in the AndroidManifest.xml file. I have created 256MB sd-card while creating an avd , heap size - 192 , ram size - 192
But it still showing me an error:
CODE:................
Is this memory related issue of internal memory or external memory? What i have to do to run application and still test with emulator? How do i install application in sd-card in Android sdk 2.2?
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Jun 3, 2010
Can someone please tell me how to install apps directly onto the microSD card? Even brand new the HTC Desire seems to only have 100MB to download and install applications on so I find it much more sense being able to store and install them on a 32GB microSD card. My internal memory is full now and I barely have any apps installed on it yet have about 900 applications I can install so I at least want to put more on!
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Nov 9, 2010
Anyone ever had this happen? Downloaded an update after the 2.1 upgrade and I sync'd my contacts with FB. It then deleted all of my contacts.So I deleted Facebook, re-stored all my contacts and reloaded Facebook. However, now it gets as far as installing and it never stops. It just stays on Installing.However, the FB app works fine on the phone itself.Is this a Market glitch? Is there anyway I can purge it from out of my downloads section?
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Sep 11, 2010
I installed a 32 g micro sd card and transfered music to it. I put several (20 or more) albums on it it onlt shows 11. The folders for the other albums are there but they are empty. If I try to add more music I have the same problem with empty folders.
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Jun 12, 2010
i wanna install all my apps to run off my SD card. How would one go about doing that? im running OTA 2.1. do i need to root, etc and can someone point me in the right direction?
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Oct 12, 2010
Last night i got the froyo 2.2.03 update for my htc wildfire, i downloaded it, ran the install and it still says 2.1 update 1, any advice? Like how to install from sd card?
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Aug 6, 2010
I just updated to Froyo and so far no problems. I cant figure out how to install apps to my SD card. I installed 10.1 adobe flash and it didn't ask me if I wanted it on my SD card. Do I need to turn on a setting to install apps on my SD card?
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Jun 9, 2010
I just picked up a new 8gig Class 6 for my hero. The original 2gig in the phone looks like it has a lot of application related data on it. Do I need need to copy this over to the new SD Card or will everything be automatically rebuilt on the new card?
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Jul 21, 2010
I have a 16GB card I want to use to replace the included card, and am curious to know if any fancy preparation is needed. Can I just copy over the original's folder structure and contents and start using the extra space, or is something else necessary to avoid having strange things happening with my installed apps?
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Aug 5, 2009
I have a 16gb micro sd for my Hero on Orange,have read here that syncing software is loaded on the sd card so will replacing the card stop the sync operations?
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Aug 30, 2010
I was wondering how do you get your apps on your SD card back after installing a new ROM? I run a backup using MyBackup Pro and after installing a new ROM and restoring from my backup, my apps that I had moved over to my SD Card don't show up on my phone. I have to reinstall them. Is there anyway to recover them from my SD Card automatically.
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Jun 3, 2012
I recently flashed my Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 with the Resurrection Remix ICS v.1.9.1 ROM and everything went fairly well except that my external sdcard looked like it had been totally erased. While this was irritating it was not devastating (had a backup) but when i attached my sgs2 to my computer to copy the backup back to the sdcard i noticed that everything was there, i hadn't lost a single file. I went back and looked at the card via my phone and it still looks empty but i did notice (after further inspection) that it is almost full. I checked to make sure view hidden files was enabled, it was, but still nada (using OI File manager and File Explorer).
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Oct 8, 2010
So yesterday I rooted my device yesterday. Today I did Droid X Bootstrap Recovery, Deodex, and backed up after deodex using ROM Manager. I got the rubix .3 ROM, and installed that. From what Ive read is to install a theme you need to put the update.zip folder on the sd card. In the root fold of my sd I already have an update.zip file. What is this? Do I need to put the them in the root of the sd? Or can I make a themes folder with subfolders and put the themes there?
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Nov 11, 2010
I know an SD card gives you extra memory for media files, but since the phone comes with 16GB is it really necessary? The basic iPhone 4 comes with 16GB and I don't think most users are clamoring for more.
Does it help the SGS speed if you leave most of the internal memory free (only using it for apps) and use the external card for all your files?
Or does it just provide an opportunity to go crazy with storing files, like an entire season of a TV show for instance?
All that being said... yes I did spring for an 8GB SD card but is it money well spent... who knows.
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May 15, 2012
I did my first custom rom install (F1 nexus)which went fine but when I put astro or any other file explore on the phone it does not see my external SD card,even when I put what I think is the right path to the SD card.
GT-I9100
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May 19, 2013
i'm using RC's GingerXtreme ROM with Rage kernel. my device is LWW. unlock BL.my question is, why i can't move some application to sd card. it say, "Failed move application". i use link2sd, still cant move.
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Jul 16, 2010
When ever I partition the sdcard it gives the option of installing a swap partition. I know that my ubuntu installation on my laptop installs a swap partition when I installed the operating system. Would there be any benefit for installing a swap partition on the sd card?
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Feb 20, 2010
Am I right to say that you cannot use an app like apps2sd to install apps on sd card without ROOT?
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Nov 8, 2010
What are the benefits to my D1 if I transfer all of my apps to the SD card? I once tried it, and immediately after my phone started to lag REALLY bad , so I put everything back on the internal memory.
I assume I did something wrong , and would like to know the correct way to do it and why I should.
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Jun 13, 2010
I've been reading up on rooting/overclocking and the like, and I've made the decision I want to try to overclock. It just seems like it's not running as good as it should be for a phone of its caliber. Killing apps seems to be the only way to improve the speed of the phone, and I think it's unnecessary to have to kill apps every time I do something on my phone. Some people have said that uninstalling app killers and not worrying about running apps has made their phone faster, and I tried that but it was running even more sluggishly than before. So if I overclock to 800-1000 and not kill apps, would I see a noticeable increase in performance? I usually run either PandaHome or just stock Home, and I may install something like BB if I get tired of home replacements, but I don't want to install a ROM at the moment, only if it's necessary.
And I have a few questions before I get started:
I've read a couple threads about rooting/overclocking, and none of them seem to say if it's possible to just get a kernal and overclocking abilities without installing a ROM and wiping the SD card, so is it possible to ONLY get overclocking abilities without installing a custom ROM and wiping the SD card?
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Oct 21, 2010
I have tried to update the default youtube app on my nexus one (Froyo) numerous times. I get the message "Error Installing - Package file was not signed correctly". I am trying to upgrade from 1.6.21 to 2.0.26.I have tried unmounting my SD card, clearing the cache for the android market, the download manager and the original youtube app.
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Nov 6, 2010
Few weeks ago, I got my HTC Desire, an unlock phone. And also change my cell phone plan to T-Mobile Talk+Text (Unlimited Text), without the Data service, but I want to be able to use MSN while I don't have Wi-Fi.So, is there any app on market that uses SMS, but not uses Data services?And, what is the setting for network and MMS??
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