07-25-2010, 12:23 AM
(07-24-2010, 06:56 AM)MEAT Wrote: Also, does anybody know how to download apps which AREN'T on the Android Marketplace? I'm very confused on this; how to get an app into your Droid phone without using Marketplace.
There is a setting you have to change to allow the phone to install non-market apps, by default it won't allow it.
You can just email the .apk to yourself (convenient if the app is small), or download it on your computer and transfer it to the sdcard with your usb cable. If you haven't used the cable before, your phone acts just like a USB thumb drive, i.e. you use the safely eject on Windows if that's what you're using.
Once the .apk file is on your sdcard, then you can open it using a file manager (Astro file manager is a must have app). It will then ask if you want to install.