The Android operating system is rapidly gaining popularity among users. According to experts, such a pace of distribution will help her soon overtake even the shell program from Bill Gates, which has long held a leading position. This state of affairs creates the need to know how to work in the environment of this operating system and how the programs are installed on Android.
First of all, you should know that Android was developed on the basis of Linux, so it has its characteristic features and specific operation algorithms. Files that are responsible for installing applications are called .apk. Installing programs on Android can be implemented in several ways.
The most obvious and simplest of them is to use the Market. Having chosen the application you like, you only have to confirm your desire. As a result, the program will be automatically downloaded and installed on the device. For this procedure, a stable Internet connection is required. If the installation of programs on Android occurs through the "Market", then the user will be "rewarded" with one important and useful feature. It consists in the fact that after the release of a new version of the application, the user will immediately receive an updated version or notification of its appearance.
If the “.apk” file is not obtained from the “Market”, but in any other way, then its installation must be started manually. In this case, installing programs on Android can be done in two ways. In the first of them, they use a standard browser of the operating system, writing the path to the executable file in the address bar . The entry should look like this: content: //com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/exact directory name / file name with the extension “.apk.”. You should pay attention to the fragment "sdcard", which indicates the location of the file on the memory card.
Especially in order to facilitate such a procedure as installing programs on Android, convenient file managers have been developed. There are quite a lot of them, they are distributed free of charge and the user will be able to easily choose an option based on personal preferences. Thus, the operating system will always have at hand a handy tool that allows you to quickly perform any file operations.
Separately, the installation of games should be highlighted. It would be very convenient if there was a program for installing games on Android. Moreover, the best 3D games require additional installation of the cache, and this makes it difficult for beginners to use popular applications. In the meantime, you must use the standard features of the operating system.
The principles for installing the game are the same as for any program. If a cache is required and there is an Internet connection, the process of launching a game application will be easy, because it will extract the necessary files. However, network connectivity is not always possible. For such cases, it is necessary to download and install the necessary resources for normal operation on the device and indicate to the game the address where the desired content is located.