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If you're running older hardware like a Droid Eris or HTC Hero, you know the sting of this situation. Some newer games are filtered out due to hardware requirements. The developers are counting on higher performing phones, and they don't want you to slam the app in reviews because your device chokes on it. This was the case when the full version of Angry Birds. Users of older phones were unable to get the app, even though it often worked on those devices. Granted, it didn't work all that well, but why not let the users give it a shot? You may also see issues with app availability with some of the copy protection being used in the Market.

If a developer chooses to copy protect their apps, phones that are not properly registered with the Market will be unable to see them. This is common with brand new phones, and those that are running pre-release ROMs (like the first Android 2.2 leaks on the Nexus One). There are way around this, though.

Here's what to do. Check with the developer for paid and free apps. Let's say you get the APK file, but then what? You're going to need to side-load it.

That means using the Android package manager to install the app manually. AT&T Android phones will need some hacking to enable the 'Unknown Sources' option. Other Android phones will let you toggle that on in the Application settings. AT&T users should check out, or find a root exploit for the phone.

You will need to either download the APK on the phone, or move it over to the SD card from a computer. Get a file manager like Astro or Estrongs, and navigate to the directory where you have placed the APK file. Tap on it and choose App manager if your file manager brings up a dialog box. On the next screen, just tap Install, and the app will install immediately.

This is what we had to do for when testing early 2.2 builds on the Nexus One due to the app being protected on the Market. Use AppBrain to get any free app on any phone. Tracks Android applications, and they also have a pair of Android apps that can automatically install apps on your phone. To take advantage of this, you'll first need to set up an AppBrain account.

The site uses Google Apps, so you can sign in with your Gmail credentials. Next, download the and sign into that. This is a way of syncing and browsing apps on your phone. The second app from the AppBrain folks is where the magic happens, but the AppBrain app is required as well. Ties into AppBrain letting you send apps over the air to your phone.

Just launch this app and activate it. It should automatically get your long in information from the AppBrain app. You may have to re-launch this app ever two weeks of so. There appears to be a time out involved.

Now navigate to the app you want on AppBrain, and if you are logged in, there should be an Install button at the top of the page. Windows Xp Media Center Edition 2005 Download Deutsch. Click it and the app will be pushed to your phone immediately. It installs itself, and you will get a notification when the deed is done.

AppBrain does not care what phone you have, or what software version you are running. Unfortunately, this only works with free apps right now, but that's where we've seen some of the more baffling restrictions. This is very useful for free apps that are regions specific. App we featured a few weeks ago was not showing up in the Market. It was still listed on AppBrain, as well as on other Android devices. Instead of wait for Google to work out this strange restriction, we just installed the app over the air with AppBrain. It works just fine on the G2, as expected.

The Dangerous Way The Android Market filters content based on your phone's identity. This identity is contained in a file called the build.prop. You can usually find this in the /system directory of the phone's internal storage. To edit this, you will have to be rooted. It can be done on either the phone with Root Explorer, or on the PC through ADB.

Keygen X6 more. Make sure you research what strings to edit in this file first. It will vary from phone to phone.

Some modifications that work on one, could break other features on another. If done correctly, you should be able to see any apps you want, though.

If you decide to go this route, make sure you keep a backup of the original build.prop file just in case. The Android ecosystem is made up of a huge number of hardware variations. You're bound to eventually run into some apps that your phone filters out. These are a few ways to get around that frustration. We hope that when Google gets around to launching the new web-based Android Market, there is more information available about why apps are filtered out.

Have you ever encountered a missing app on Android? What did you do?

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You can use the above Gradle plugin on top of Travis' Android support. Update - 2014/06/27 - Android SDK r23 With the release of Android SDK version 23, there are some backwards-incompatible changes: • System image names changed. For example, instead of sysimg-17, use sys-img-armeabi-v7a-android-17. • The Android license was updated, and now has the id android-sdk-license-5be876d5. If you did not explicitly specify any license, you shouldn't need any change. Usage curl -L bash /dev/stdin --install=build-tools-18.1.0,android-17,sys-img-armeabi-v7a-android-17 && source ~/.android-sdk-installer/env The above command will download and install the SDK in $HOME/.android-sdk-installer.

You can override it with --dir=custom_path. You can specify components to install directly with --install=component1,component2. The is the same as installing it with: android update sdk --no-ui -a --filter component1,component2.

Platform-tools is automatically installed. Some typical filters: build-tools-18.1.0,android-17,sys-img-armeabi-v7a-android-17,extra-android-support,extra-google-google_play_services,extra-google-m2repository,extra-android-m2repository To get a full list of available SDK components, run: android list sdk --extended -a Currently the script is optimized to be run in a clean environment, and does not efficiently update an existing environment (it may download and install existing components again). You may also include the script directly in your project, but then it will not be updated to handle newer Android SDK releases. Accepting licenses By default, only the android-sdk-license-5be876d5 license is accepted.

This has the side-effect of preventing the install of MIPS emulator images, as well as some other components which are usually not required.