How to install APK programmatically without user prompt

[Pratik Prajapati]

I need to install some non market place APK programmatically without user prompt. I found some links on stackoverflow, but all those mechanism will prompt the user.
Is there any way to do it with some APIs or I should use 'pm install <apk name>' command (doing with system() api)?

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Regards,

Pratik Prajapati

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

That's possible. There's an API that Market uses for that. It's
protected by a permission that's only accessible to applications
installed in the system partition.

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[Chris]

You can't install apks silently.

[Dianne Hackborn]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Pratik Prajapati <pratik.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any way to do it with some APIs or I should use 'pm install <apk name>' command (doing with system() api)?

(a) Running the pm command doesn't give you any extra privileges.

(b) NO shell commands are part of the SDK; using them will risk your application breaking.

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[Bahar Ali]

adb install /path/to/apk


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