I just started with windroy
How to install apps in Windroy?
I can copy .apk files into windroy_root\system\app, but then I need to restart Windroy.
I checked web site and files in windroy_root, there is no real docs.
Also there is no any app store.
This is for anyone using the newer version of windroy.
The new version v4.0.3 attempts to emulate android 4.0.3 but the trouble that i have
ran into is that not many apks will run properly. This being said you may have to make several attempts before you find an apk that will work, but the simple way of installing apks is to use a file manager because it gives you access to the file system for other tasks as well.
The file manager that i have choosen is Arc File Manager, Go File Master works as well but most pcs dont have an auto rotate feature which makes Go File Master annoying, Arc loads great plus it loads in landscape mode for easier use. I hope this helps
you if your running 4.0.3 or decide to use it in the future.
Here are the steps I used to install apps on Windroy
Download the Apk Installer and put it in windroy_root\system\app. I used this link http://www.appsapk.com/apk-installer/
Start Windroy
Go to Apps screen and you will see "Apk Installer" icon
Call it and navigate to where you put the .apk that you want to install
Double Click on .apf file
What you have to do is download any launcher from a trusted site and place it in "windroy_root\system\app". Then place the apps you want to install in "windroy_root\mnt\sdcard\" and execute Windroy.
After booting you can select the launcher you just placed in "windroy_root\system\app".
Download apk files and paste to windroy_root\data\app
Then restart windroy .
I spent lot of time trying to figure how to run an app in Windroy. So here are the detailed steps to install apps on Windroy and run them. You can download Windroy from http://www.windroye.com/index_eng.html and install it.
1. After installing Windroy verify that it runs without error.
2. In Windroy open a browser and download the Apk Installer from http://www.appsapk.com/apk-installer/ and install it once it gets downloaded
3. Lets assume you have installed Windroy in 'C:\BaseInstall' folder.
4. Now open Windows Explorer, copy the apk of the app you want to install and paste it to 'C:\BaseInstall\Windroy\windroy_root\data\app' folder
5. Now start Windroy and go to installed apps and you will see the 'app' you have copied installed in Windroy.
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i have prepared my first android app in android studio, but it run only in Android Studio Emulator not in mobile. Please help me by telling the simple solution so that i can distribute the app to others.
Thank You.
Click on the "build" tab in the android studio and then click on "build apk". After your android studio is finished building the apk, you will have an option to go to the folder where the apk is located. Go to that folder, select the .apk file and transfer it to your phone. After, make sure that your android phone has a permission to install apps outside of PlayStore. Install your app!
First you will need to create an .apk of your app through studio. If it successfully runs in Emulator, that is a good sign. Once the .apk is created. Save it to Desktop or wherever else you would like. Plug in your android device and open the device in File Explorer (or equiv. depends on OS). Copy the .apk to your device's Downloads folder. Once the copy is successful, eject your device from your computer. Open the file manager (whatever it is called, I don't personally own an Android, but I had to fix my cousin's :p) on your device. Go to Downloads and click the .apk you just transferred to the device. A dialog should come up asking if you would like to install the app. Click yes, or install, or the equivalent. Go to your Apps view and it should be there.
How do you install an apk on the emulator in Android Studio from the terminal?
In Eclipse we did
/home/pcname/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 install /home/pcname/Downloads/apkname.apk
Now how about in Android Studio?
Run simulator -> drag and drop yourApp.apk into simulator screen.
Thats all.
No commands.
EDIT: Even though this answer is marked as the correct answer (in 2013), currently, as answered by #user2511630 below, you can drag-n-drop apk files directly into the emulator to install them.
Original Answer:
You can install .apk files to emulator regardless of what you are using (Eclipse or Android Studio)
here's what I always do: (For full beginners)
1- Run the emulator, and wait until it's completely started.
2- Go to your sdk installation folder then go to platform-tools (you should see an executable called adb.exe)
3- create a new file and call it run.bat, edit the file with notepad and write CMD in it and save it.
4- copy your desired apk to the same folder
5- now open run.bat and write adb install "your_apk_file.apk"
6- wait until the installation is complete
7- voila your apk is installed to your emulator.
Note: to re-install the application if it already existe use adb install -r "your_apk_file.apk"
sorry for the detailed instruction as I said for full beginners
Hope this help.
Regards,
Tarek
For those using Mac and you get a command not found error, what you need to do is
type
./adb install "yourapk.apk"
Start your Emulator from Android Studio Tools->Android-> AVD Manager then select an emulator image and start it.
After emulator is started just drag and drop the APK Very simple.
Just drag APK file to android emulator it will install automatically.
In android studio emulator to run an apk file just drag the apk into the emulator.The emulator will install the apk
Much easier is just to start your emulator, then go to sdk/platform-tools and use adb from there to install apk. Like:
adb install xxx.apk
It will install it on running emulator.
Drag and drop apk if the emulator is launched from Android Studio. If the emulator is started from command line, drag and drop doesn't work, but #Tarek K. Ajaj instructions (above) work.
Note: Installed app won't automatically appear on the home screen, it is in the apps container - the dotted grid icon. It can be dragged from there to the home screen.
For Linux: once emulator is running, the following worked for me.
Because I installed the Android SDK on my home directory, I have the following file structure:
home/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
home/AndroidStudioProjects/Metronome.adk
AndroidStudioProjects is a file folder I made for my Android projects. "Metronome.adk" is the file I want to run.
So, using Terminal from the home directory...
./Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb install ./AndroidStudioProjects/Metronome.adk
Being a Linux novice, I often forget the need to put the "./" in when trying to locate a file or run a command.
After the command achieves "Success", the app is in the Apps area of the emulator and can be run.
When you start Android studio Look for Profile or Debug apk.
After clicking you get the option to browse for the saved apk and you will be able to later run it using emulator
If Android Studio is already open:
Click on File you can find Profile or Debug apk in this menu too
Just download the apk from talkback website
Drag the downloaded apk to the started emulator, Go to settings on emulator > Search for talkback, you will now find it there
1.Install Android studio.
2.Launch AVD Manager
3.Verify environment variable in set properly based on OS(.bash_profile in mac and environment Variable in windows)
4. launch emulator
5. verify via adb devices command.
6.use adb install apkFileName.apk
Upload your apk file on the cloud , then make a direct download link for downloading and then copy that link and paste it on the emulator browser for download it :) ;
In Android Studio: View - Tool Windows - Gradle
In the Gradle tool window navigate to your :app - Tasks - install
and then execute (by double-clicking): any of your install*tasks: e.g. installDebug, installRelease
Note: the apk will also automatically installed when you Run your application
I have a game I built in eclipse and now want to install on my phone.
I downloaded ASTRO per an example in YouTube, then copied the .apk file to the SD Card, went to the phone, found it try to install it but it seems like it doesn't recognize it because it does not give me the option to install although I can browse through my assets, drawables etc...
Am I missing something? I just want to download it to the phone ... but all I see is a black list under summary with no description and no button to click on for "Install".
try installing it via adb. Type
'the path to your adb on the pc - it's located in the platform-tools directory of the sdk' install 'the path to your apk on the pc'
in the shell. i.e
adb install myapp.apk in case the path to your adb installation is in the system path and your current directory is the one with the apk.
If you develop i think you got android sdk set up, try to fire up install from the command line by using : adb install
Make sure adb is in your path and your phone has development settings turned on.
you can also open it using the webrowser
using file:///sdcard/bla.apk
If you can browse your assets etc then it sounds like you used long-press in Astro and then told it to 'Extract'. This doesn't install the app, it simply unpacks the apk into its component parts.
Do a 'short-press' (click) on the apk file with Astro and it should give you the option to 'Open App Manager'. This should allow you to install it.
I had this happen to me and this is what I had to do to fix it. Since the option to install is grayed out you need to edit your AndroidManifest.xml and tell Android what sdk version it targets. The version on your phone is probably 2.1 and you have been developing on 2.2. This is what you need to insert into the manifest file.
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="8" android:maxSdkVersion="8">
</uses-sdk>
Renaming the .apk to some other extension is not enough to enable beaming. Android will look into the file. You must rename the file then zip it. After that a beam will work and just reverse the process before installing on the device.
This is quite a pain because I beam my apk hundreds of times while testing. On my desire with froyo it was allowed but now on my nexus s with gingerbread it is blocked.
Just figured out you can email the apk to your gmail account as an attatchment and you can install the apk straight from the email. When you open up the email scroll to the very botton and you will see a "Install" button. it's a quick and easy solution.
I want to install the Photoshop mobile on my emulator. I need to do test the Photoshop.com Mobile integration for image editing. But I dont know how to do that. I cannot access the market from the emulator.
Can anyone tell me how I can install it on my simulator.
I want to install the Photoshop mobile
on my emulator.
AFAIK, Adobe only makes that application available through the Android Market. If you wish to integrate with it, please use your Android device. You need one of those anyway in order to test your application on hardware.
From Eclipse (supposing it's attached to Android Development Kit), get the application bundle (.apk). Then Import it to Eclipse.
Run it and it will appear in the emulator.
You should get the apk file from some other source, free to download or ask a friend to get it for you.
Then you will push that file to the sdcard of the emulator via the DDMS file explorer, and you will install it by launching it.
You need the .apk file to run it. Browse the android market from your emulator, locate the app and click and follow the instructions. As pentium said, ask Adobe to send you the apk file and install it on emulator, I do it this way Install.
OK finally I found a way to do this. Not sure if there are any rules broken while doing this.
Steps to get the free APK and download it is detailed at http://codekiem.com/2012/02/24/apk-downloader/
Once u have the apk with you use the following ADB command to install it on the emulator
adb install <path_to_apk>
am almost done with my project in android, now I want to make the executable version of the application.
I need to demonstrate it in .exe form as soft app as on emulator, not by built and debug process from eclipse.
what the op is asking for is simple - he wants to create a MS Windows program file that runs just like the APK he's made.
Unfortunately this cannot be done. The only way to 'show off' your program is as people have stated:
Through the emulator on Windows
On an acual device (Once installed, you can disconnect the device from the computer and use it like a normal app)
You can't convert an APK file into a .exe file. APK files hold Android apps as self-installable files already - opening an APK file on a phone or the emulator will start the installation process. It sounds like you just want to sign the app with a 'proper' key rather than using a debug key. To do that, read the official page on signing apps.
You don't need to create a .EXE file for doing what you want. You can just create a bat file that executes adb commands that will: install and start your application in the emulator. I guess, the problem here is that you don't understand how the APK files work... I'm just saying.
OK... in order to install an Android application using adb (which is basically what Eclipse does in the background) you need to do this:
adb install path/name_app.apk
Then, you can start the application by using adb shell am command. You can find info here: http://pdk.android.com/online-pdk/guide/instrumentation_testing.html
Another thing you have to take in account is that you will have to run the AVD before installing and executing your application: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/avd.html
All those commands you have to execute (may be using a .bat file as I mentioned before) are executables that you can find in the android-sdk\tools directory.
When I have a client that want's to show an app, at conference for example, I always use Bluestacks it's not perfect but it allows you to run android apps on your computer without doing all the technical stuff (like installing an emulator etc).
To install an app on your you computer using the Bluestacks device/emulator you simply click on the apk.
http://bluestacks.com/
Once you create a project/application in Eclipse then along with this you also have created the .apk file. Android can run .apk files, so go to the place where your project have been saved and open it, like this Open Project -->bin-->.apk.
Now send the .apk file to your android phone through Bluetooth or copy it.