Im trying to make an app that will basically be able to be downloaded directly from my mobile website. I honestly want to just make something so users can download the app to their phone and when they click on it they will be directed to my mobile website. So basically i just need to design the button and make it so it can be downloaded and installed on mobile phones.
I have searched the net looking for how to do this and nobody specifically explains how to build this. Does anyone have any idea of how i can go about this?
What works for me with Android is email the APK file. The user can open the mail on their phone. In Gmail you will see the install button which of course can be used to install the app.
I use this to distribute my apps outside the market.
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Am a basic and a fresher developer in the code world. Am developed a PWA app and wants to install it from the Google Play Store or any other suitable method. Now a day's am just able to install my PWA-APP via the Chrome/Safari browser by typing the URL first, then a pop up appears automatically and ask to 'Add shortcut on home screen'. This is the standard way for installing a PWA app.
But can it possible to share a Link of my PWA-APP to my users or any other way for installing the PWA app ? I don't have such more ideas to do some other installation way and request a kind help to install the APP without depending on any browser.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
I want to make an application for my website but I don't want it to be really an application. I want to deliver and apk that can be installed on android device and just I frames the website and show the site in responsive mode. Is it easy to do that or any online tool for that!?
what is your email? If you want, send me your app logo that you want and website link. I can send you .apk app if you want. My email is graspery#gmail.com
Recently I was browsing a website from my iPhone and it prompted me to download their app at the top of the browser.
We are also having same kind of app in iTunes and wants our users to see the notification same as theirs. Attaching a screen-shot.
Anybody suggest how is this achieved?Through some script or plugins.
Help us to integrate this.
When the user visits your webpage, you can check the browser & OS of device requesting the webpage. Depending upon this information, you can write the script to navigate user to your app download link. Check How to detect my browser version and operating system using JavaScript? for reference.
The right way to do it is using Smart App Banners, Safari builds the banner
in it's UI, is not part of the web page.
Just as Michael Tarimo says in the comments of the accepted answer.
I want to allow for visitors of some exhibition install and test my app that doesn't listed in app store and android market at this moment. And of course I don't know any id of visitor devices.
Is it possible and which is the easiest way to do that?
For Android you could put your app in a Dropbox folder of yours. Then using an app like ZXing barcode scanner share that link as a QR code in an email to yourself. Extract the .png image from the email (maybe enlarge it) and print it out again. Attach the QR code to the welcome poster at the exhibition and invite visitors to scan it with their Android phone (assuming they have a barcode scanner app on their phone - if not suggest they download a free one from Google Play). They can then install the app easily, as scanning the code will download it.
Transfer the .apk file(for android) to the user's phone through bluetooth so that people can install your app
check hockeyApp http://www.hockeyapp.net/
You upload your app on it, and register "testers",
they receive a mail with a link to download the app(for iPhone you need to provision the phones).
After the installation it sends back crash reports with the type of the device and the OS version. I think it's a great tool for what you need.
It has a free version.
Currently only for iOS but have a look at TestFlight
i am using a augmented reality in my android application.
For this i am using the wikitude api. This api requires the phone to have the wikitude browser installed in our phone. if it is not there is a provision that i can show a message that the apk file is not available on your phone.
When the above message is shown that the wikitude broswer is unavailable on the phone, i want to install the brower on the user's phone using the code in my application.
Right now i am providing a link to the android market where the wikitude browser lies, rather than redirecting him to this url, i want to install the app directly in the phone without the user ever knowing that there is another app being installed in the background from the android market.
is this possible in android?
thank you in advance.
It's actually a bad idea to try to install any kind of software without letting your users know about it. And there are permissions that user must accept, you cannot just overcome this. So the only solution for you is to redirect the user to the market and let him know that he won't be able to use your application without having the other one installed.