January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 23m
English
Content preview from Android Application Development Cookbook: 93 Recipes for Building Winning Apps
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Recipe 11.4 Deploying Your App Through the Web
Android Versions
Level 1 and above
Permissions
None
Source Code to Download
None
Another easy way to deploy your application is through a web server. You can use the web server to host your APK file, and give the URL to users. This recipe shows you how.
Solution
If you have your own web server, you can use it to host the APK file and then share the URL with your users, who can use the built-in browser on their device to browse to the URL and download the APK file directly onto their device.
NOTE On some web servers, you may need to configure the MIME type for the APK file so that it can be served correctly. The MIME type for the APK file is application/vnd.android.package-archive.
Once the APK file is downloaded, users will be able to see that from the notification window (see Figure 11-16).
Tapping on the notification will prompt the user to install the application.
NOTE You can deploy your APK file very easily if you have Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com). Simply copy the APK file into the Public folder of your Dropbox folder and you will be able to get the public URL of the APK file and share it with your users.
The typical path of a Dropbox Public folder is https://dl.dropbox.com/u/<user_account>/MyApp.apk.
Using this method, there is no need to configure your own web server. Of ...
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