how to install apps on android?

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please help me. how can i install apps on my android?.. i tell you that i have android on my micro sdhc card and on the memory i have WM 6.5

Originally Posted by cabasse_tronic

please help me. how can i install apps on my android?.. i tell you that i have android on my micro sdhc card and on the memory i have WM 6.5

That's a very odd question. you can install applications using the android market or if you have apk files download generic file browser and use it to install the apps.

apps that i heve on my memory card..

Originally Posted by cabasse_tronic

apps that i heve on my memory card..

vapk files download a generic file browser and
use it to install the apps.

Oi file manager should do the trick.

Astro file manager does the job as well

And AstroZIP too...

But I've a question: is there a way to install an .apk file using just the terminal shell?
I.e.: if I've not Internet access and the build I use have not a burned in file manager...
I know, I can use an androidupdate.tar but suppose I've no way to build it up and have the .apk on the sdcard, from a previous download...

Originally Posted by cabasse_tronic

please help me. how can i install apps on my android?.. i tell you that i have android on my micro sdhc card and on the memory i have WM 6.5

i believe you're using haret to run android from SD card, unpack androidinstall with 7zip, copy file browser app .apk into /system/app/ (etc. astro file browser), repack it and then install again with haret. now you can use file browser to install apps on SD.

or :
use terminal to copy file .apk into /data/app/ , reboot android


alternatively, taken from DirectMatrix post (not tested):

put .apk in your sd card root to easily find it then run command as below,

su
busybox install /sdcard/yourapp.apk /sd-ext/app

Oh... I suppose this is an answer to my curiosity too

Yes, I know... it'd be sufficient I googled for a while but, as I said, mine was a question arose at the time I was writing...

CU

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Ok, just tried...

New to this world and with just a little little little bit of knowledge about UNIX-Linux, maybe I did a mistake but:

copying the .apk in /data/app and resetting did the job instead using busybox didn't

As I can see having a look to busybox docs, the install command with no other parameters just copies the file so you can do the same with:

su
cp /sdcard/yourapp.apk /sd-ext/app

More... if I understood well, sd-ext is the application repository used if you enable apps2sd and if you have not (I don't, at present time, as I'm testing...) the method doesn't work...

Correct?

Apps2SD requires an ext3 partition on the SD card, and if you only have ext2 or fat32 it does not work.