I am developing a paid app that I will be placing in the google play store, but I want to give away some copies of the app for free to reviewers, for promotions, etc. I know that I can just link to the apk file but that is not secure as anyone could then copy and re distribute it. My question is, is there a way to distribute an application outside of the google play store but in a secure manner? Are there other services that allow you to upload your apk and distribute the app to specific individuals?
Share
If you’re concerned about people redistributing your APK, anyone who can install your app can retrieve the APK from their phone and then make that APK available to others, if they wish.
A dedicated android app distribution service might have useful Play-Store-like features, but if that’s not essential for you then you just need a non-public file distribution method.
Some possible means of distributing a file to a named set of individuals: