{"id":1654,"date":"2009-08-27T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-08-27T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:08:05","slug":"allowing-the-installation-of-non-market-applications-in-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Allowing the installation of non-market applications in Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Android Market is not the only place where you can get applications for your Android phone.\u00a0 As long as you are prepared to accept the increased risks then you can install applications from anywhere.\u00a0 Android applications have the extension .apk and to allow their installation all I had to do on my HTC Hero was<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the home screen press the <strong>Menu<\/strong> button and then tap on <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap on <strong>Applications.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tap on <strong>Unknown sources<\/strong> <em>(allow install of non-Market applications) <\/em>and follow the prompts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This information is widely available on the web and there are\u00a0 several other ways of doing it.\u00a0 The only reason I am posting it here is as a reminder to self but it&#8217;ll be a bonus if it&#8217;s useful to anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Android Market is not the only place where you can get applications for your Android phone.\u00a0 As long as you are prepared to accept the increased risks then you can install applications from anywhere.\u00a0 Android applications have the extension .apk and to allow their installation all I had to do on my HTC Hero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}