If you find yourself browsing Android apps in the Google Play Store on your computer's browser, you can install them directly to your phone.

Need helping installing an APK file on your Android phone? We'll show you how to properly install third-party apps and stores without Google Play.

Copy the file of the Android application you want to install from your PC to the SD card or right to the phone if you have no SD card slot. Android application files have the ".apk" extension.

Does the Google Play Store not offer the app you want? We explain how to install apps/APK files from outside the Play Store.

There are plenty of other ways to get apps from outside of Google Play. Here is how to install apps from APKs.

Sideloading popular apps onto your BB10 device is fast and easy.

In general, you should install apps outside of your phone's app store only if you have a very good reason to.

Android, unlike some phone operating systems, allows users to install software from outside the default app store (even if you don't live in Europe). And that's good, because there's all kinds of ...

On the phone I tried this on (a Samsung using Android 2.1 ) the first item on the menu says 'Unknown Sources: Allow Install of non-Market application' check the box next to it.

As long as you are signed in to the Google account that's linked to your Samsung Galaxy S II, you can install apps on the phone from either the phone or your computer. Using the Google Play store ...