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Android silent installation

We want to install our application on (thousands) of phones, and these phones will later be delivered to customers. Do I need to do this manually? Is there a faster way to do this?

For example, in Windows Mobile, if you put the installation files in a specific folder on the SD card, and when you insert this SD card into the phone, the application is automatically installed on the device. Any similar mechanism on Android?

Thanks in advance.

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I found this: http://www.harmonyhollow.net/android_injector.shtml

So far this is the best solution I have found. I think he uses adb behind the scenes.

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You can create the update.zip file on the SD card that installs the application, but you need to boot the phone into recovery mode to run it. I did not use update.zip this way, but I saw it here: http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-android-update-zip-package/

Unfortunately, this is much more complicated and slower than the old 2577 \ Autorun.exe method from WindowsMobile.

Other ideas ...

  • ADB + USB nodes: simultaneously connect a bunch of phones using USB hubs, run a script to find the device identifiers with adb devices and run adb install your_app.apk for each of them. <w> (It takes time to enable USB debugging on each device)

  • Install from the Internet: host .apk publicly or locally. Now you need to pull up the URL on the phone.
    (It takes time to check this box to install from unknown sources on each device)

    • TinyUrl: place .apk anywhere, shorten the URL, enter it into the browser.

    • QR code: If you have a QR code reader, such as Google Goggles, installed on your devices, you can save on entering a URL.

    • SMS: If all these phones have a service and you have numbers, you can broadcast SMS to all of them.

Good luck

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I guess, yes. See this question for more details. You need an army machine gun machine.

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