Unfortunately the method described for Android 8. My system is all screwed up and i cannot find a way to fix it. Done all recommended stuff still to no avail. Any suggestions? Affiliate Disclosure: Make Tech Easier may earn commission on products purchased through our links, which supports the work we do for our readers. Install Apps without Play Store in Android 8.
Is this article useful? Yes No. Never Miss Out Receive updates of our latest tutorials. Sign up for all newsletters. I would like to receive newsletters via email. We will not share your data and you can unsubscribe at any time. Google has security holes too, as proven with all the deleted malware and spyware apps in that copied other apps, changed their names, and injected malware. After all, why would Google want that option? Since all other methods are not as reliable, you should venture beyond the Play Store with care.
Before you start sideloading apps, you have to modify the system settings on your Android device. There are a few different methods, depending on your Android version. The above steps enable your browser to get apps from sources other than Google Play. Android 8 controls the installation permissions through individual apps rather than all of them at once, so you need to allow the browser to perform installations. With older Android versions 7. Instead, you have to trigger an option for downloading files from all available sources.
Using the above steps, you will have access to any APKs you want to install , as long as they are compatible with your device. This option can put your device at risk since it allows all unknown sources to store files rather than on an app-by-app basis. That said, you may be one of them.
Perhaps you want to remove Google from your life entirely. There are many reasons why you might want to use a Google-free Android phone; here are some of the big ones. When I first started using Google, it was to perform searches.
Then it became a way to manage mail, which then turned into a place for instant messaging. Later, Google became a way to look at maps, which morphed into a GPS replacement steering me around town. Still further, it became a place for writing documents and storing files. Google became a way to browse the web and sync every page I visited. Then it turned into a way to download and manage apps, track Android devices, and wipe them remotely. Search on Android became Google Now, which then became Google Assistant, a digital assistant that uses everything Google knows about us based on our activity.
I'm not inherently against sharing any of this information with a company, but to share it all with one company is a bit much. This leads us to the next reason. This helps Google perform a number of tasks, from installing apps remotely to pulling up your location. These services also give third-party apps access to some of that functionality.
Opting to use Android without signing into a Google account reduces some of the information you're giving away. That said, it won't suddenly turn your device into a ghost.
The act of pinging and connecting to cell towers makes mobile phones inherently trackable. But making this change reduces some of the information that you generate and share.
Android is an open source operating system, but most of the software that we use on our phones isn't. If you've ever wanted to use only the open source bits, the easiest way is to replace your phone's default firmware with a custom ROM.
Sure, there are some proprietary bits that get your phone's radios and sensors to work, but that's the same compromise many of us make when we install Linux on our PCs. Since it's really hard to know which apps in the Play Store are open source, avoiding it entirely decreases your likelihood of installing something closed-source.
You will still need to get apps from somewhere, but we'll come back to that. You're curious about using a non-Google Android phone. But hold on. Here are some reasons why you might want to exercise restraint.
You might not be able to continue using much of what you rely on right now. Saying goodbye to Google means losing out on the many Android apps that Google makes.
If you choose to go a step further, and use only open source software, like I did, this is even more drastic. Say goodbye to social networks, music streaming services, popular games, most navigation tools, cloud storage providers, video streaming sites, and many productivity tools. Alternative app stores may provide access to a good number of apps you would find on Google Play, but updates don't roll out as quickly. Some of these sources fall weeks or months behind. Slow updates can leave you open to known vulnerabilities.
But that's not the primary security risk you open yourself up to. The most common way to compromise a device is to install malicious software, typically unsuspectingly. Using an alternative app store means allowing your device to install software outside of the Play Store, opening yourself up to these kind of attacks. Unfortunately, this is a trade-off you have to consider for yourself. Do you rely on the added security that comes from only installing software from the Play Store?
Or do you get your apps from elsewhere and run the risk of getting your hands on something that hasn't been vetted? Even without installing a single app, our smartphones are already capable of doing a great deal. You can place calls, send text messages, take photos, maintain a calendar, listen to music, solve math problems, take notes, and browse the web without looking for additional software. This is already more than what feature phones can do, and let's be real, millions of people are still carrying one of those around without it having a negative effect on their lives.
You can turn your Android phone into an advanced dumbphone and stop there. How functional your phone will be out of the box depends on the manufacturer. Samsung devices come with a number of pre-installed apps you'll only find on each company's devices. These apps will continue to work without syncing your phone to a Google account. On a Pixel device, the situation is a bit more challenging, since these phones come loaded with Google software. Even if you remove all the apps that require a Google account to function, you will still lose some features in the apps that remain.
For example, the dialer app still works fine, but it doesn't automatically pull down contacts, and you can only pull up numbers that are saved to your device. The camera app take photos, but it doesn't offer to automatically back them up to Google Photos. YouTube Music only plays files stored locally. Frankly, this situation didn't bother me. Despite the wide availability of music streaming services, I still buy albums and store my music locally.
Even with access to cloud services, I back up much of my data to hard drives. When given the choice to sync my browsing history and tabs, I decline. These are all habits I formed due to limited data plans, spotty coverage, inconsistent access to a reliable internet connection, and discomfort at the thought of trusting companies with such personal data. I say this to stress that there may be other benefits you lose by giving up Google that just didn't occur to me, due to the way I use my phone.
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