Question

As you understand, I will download application from my server if user click on the download link. And of course for installing, user will accept in irder to install it. Thus, I wonder ;

• Is it possible to download package from my server? If yes how ?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible. Make sure you have your server configured to use the appropriate mime type.

AddType application/vnd.android.package-archive .apk

OR

<a href="apk location" type="application/vnd.android.package-archive">Download App</a>

To download the apk in your app, you can use the my open source library here. While it is meant for checking for and downloading updates, you can use it to download other apk files (or any other file at all) as well.

In your Activity add the following code to your onCreate(). If you don’t want toast notifications, change the second parameter to false:

UpdateChecker checker = new UpdateChecker(this, true);

Then, use the following to download and install the update. Note that this will show a progress dialog while downloading:

checker.downloadAndInstall("URL with http:// to the location of the update apk");