Installing Applications on android from your computer

Executables will have an .apk extension (apk – android package)

We have to change the following settings for installing .apk files from your computer. On your device:

1. Click Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Unknown sources. If it is not checked, check it
2. Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging. Check this box
3. Connect the USB cable.
4. Notifications (the drop down bar at the top of the home screen) -> select USB connected -> Click Mount

(OR

• Menu -> settings -> SD card and storage -> click on Disable use for USB storage and enable it

On your computer, install these if you don’t have it:

1. android sdk - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. USB driver - http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

Steps:

1. On your command prompt navigate to the folder where u had installed the android sdk and then go to tools folder.

On my computer it was on "C: \Documents\ android-sdk-windows\tools"

2. Type adb install <path><file_name>.apk. If you have the .apk file in the tools folder you can simply type adb install example.apk.

You have successfully installed the application.