Captivate Sideload App

[E_man]

Was just listening to the podcast, and someone mentioned making a windows application that makes sideloading apps through the SDK a couple of clicks, since it obviously can't be done normally.

Just wanted to say that'd be awesome, and if I knew a little more about coding, I'd help for sure!

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

You can do it without an application, they are just making it simple without installing the sdk.

To do it: Install sdk, place it in the C:\ drive
Install drivers for adb
place apk into the tools folder of the sdk
open up command prompt
type:
cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools\
adb push FILENAME.apk /data/
the phone automatically installs and will show up in the launcher almost immediately

if you're rooted, you can install the file to /system/ or remove files from /system/ by typing:
abd remount
adb push filename.apk /system/app/

or delete files
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app/
rm filename.apk

 

[E_man]

Yeah, I know it wasn't that hard, but having it made even easier would be awesome. Looks not to hard, I may try and dust off the old coding, and make a batch or something.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Yeah, what they do is extract the adb from the sdk an put it into a program with a script that calls upon it and runs command prompt in the background. Its not a hard program to make, so I wouldn't expect it to take very long. They did something similar for the initial root of the Evo. All you needed to do was double click a bash file and let the computer do all the work.