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Reputation: 490

Deploy Android applications for internal company users

I have developed Android application. Now I want to deliver it to the our company users. What is the best way to deliver it to the users without publishing Android Market?

I can store APK in the server and send link to the users. Users can access that link from
their mobiles and download APK to SD card and after install to their phones. Is that possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 147

Answers (5)

Patrick Rudolph
Patrick Rudolph

Reputation: 2241

Simply distributing the .apk to your internal users is probably the easiest way to setup, however you will not benefit from the automatic app updates that Google Play provides.

By now there are a couple of more solutions available, e.g. Private Channel (for Google Apps users), Alpha/beta stages for internal distribution (more like a hack..) or complex MDM solutions.

Please see my answer in Google Play deployment for internal company user only for reference.

Upvotes: 1

Sujanian
Sujanian

Reputation: 55

Yes,what you are trying to do is right but make sure that you also provide the API level for users because your application might not work on earlier API levels.

Upvotes: 1

Mike T
Mike T

Reputation: 4787

What I've done before is host the APK on Dropbox and provide a public URL to the users to download it. Once they've downloaded it, a popup asks the user if they want to install it. It's pretty easy to set up.

Upvotes: 1

Tyler Treat
Tyler Treat

Reputation: 15008

If you don't want to distribute it publicly, what you said will work. You can provide an APK which users can download to their devices and install directly from the APK. Alternatively, you could install via ADB.

However, this makes upgrading a little trickier down the road.

Upvotes: 2

Sandip Jadhav
Sandip Jadhav

Reputation: 7155

Your method will work for sure. one another way is to send them via mail as a attachment.

Upvotes: 1

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