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.
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I need to have open/edit/review of my own app which I've previously installed on BlueStacks.
Somehow I think there is a way to access what I looking for. Actually it's not a copyrighted product.
I've found the shortcut of this app which is in this path:
C:\ProgramData\BlueStacks\UserData\Library\My Apps
When in looking for Target of this shortcut i found the name of project like com.xxx.xxxx and other things like these:
C:\Program Files (x86)\BlueStacks\HD-RunApp.exe" -p net.xxxx.xxxxx -a net.xxxx.xxxx.xxxxx
these x's refer to my application's name which is correct.
You can install any apk extracting app 'you can try this for example'
, and then copy your apks to
sdcard > bstfolder > Documents
follow this for full description
Given answers no longer work for Bluestacks 4.
So if you are using Bluestacks 4 : use ES file manager and make a backup, same as before. Save it for instance in downloads.
Next in bluestacks go to Media Manager, downloads click on the backed up apk and click on export to windows. It'll let you pick a windows directory where you'll save the apk.
You can Install 'ESFile Explorer' on your bluestacks then backup your installed app and copy them to:
SDcard > Windows > BstSharedFolder
then you'll find it on windows on this folder:
C: > ProgramData > BlueStacks > UserData > SharedFolder
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.
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
How do I (forcibly) remove the stock android Phone application from the emulator instance?
I would especially like answers from people who have actually successfully removed the Phone application.
Removing the Phone application probably also necessitates removing the Contacts application, as they are tightly integrated, that is fine.
Solution
After much research it seems the only solution is to rebuild the Android SDK from source, as Maciej Pigulski answered.
After fetching the android source, remove Phone and Contacts from the Android makefile build/target/product/core.mk. And build the SDK as usual, i.e.:
. build/envsetup.sh
lunch generic-eng
make sdk
And in out/host/linux-x86/sdk you will have a zip file containg a fresh new sdk ready for use in e.g. Eclipse.
I successfully remove Phone apps WITHOUT rebuilding the SDK (very long op...)
You can edit you system.img in your SDK (located for ex : ~/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-10/images/system.img) corresponding to the system part of your emulator ( Phone apos is located at /system/apps/Phone.apk)
I launched the emulator, connect with adb to the emulator shell. I removed the packaged /system/apps/Phone.pak after remounting the system partition with read/write option ( mount -o rw,remount /system /system )
I push into my emulator the mkfs.yaffs2 tools compiled for arm found here (http://code.google.com/p/android-group-korea/downloads/detail?name=mkfs.yaffs2.arm)
use this tools to recreate my system.img in my emulator shell:
mkfs.yaffs2 /system /sdcard/system.img
pull the /sdcard/system.img into my PC. Replace the system.img of the emulator (~/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-10/images/system.img) and restart the emulator.
The Phone app is Gone!
I have an idea how this could be done but this is not an easy way.
It requires source code of the Android OS you need an emulator for. Then in the make files you can disable including of the Phone application to the output image and build the OS with 'make sdk' task. This will produce an SDK (like ones available from the Google site) with the binaries that has Phone application excluded. Then when you will create an emulator with this SDK it wont have the Phone.apk.
Painful but if you really need it, give it a try.
If you have root acces you can remove the .apk file that provides this app. You would have to look around in the folders on the device where it is installed.
It may be necessary to re-compile the Android OS that is running on the emulator. During the compile the default apps are rolled up into the build so it would be a matter of getting the egg before the chicken... or killing the chicken before it lays the egg...
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.