We all know that Android apps are available only on the Google Play. You then need to search for the app on Google Play and download them to your phone or tablet. However, there are millions off apps available on Google Play and while some are tiny apps, many are pretty large. These tend to eat up into your app storage space, and more importantly into your Internet quota.
A smart way is to download these apps to your PC and transfer them to your smartphone or tablet. In this way, you can save on your 3G Internet bills by downloading the apps from your PC using the cheaper broadband connection. We shall show you how to download apk files Android apps directly from Google Play to your desktop PC or laptop so that you can install the same on multiple smartphones and tablets. In this article, we shall show you how to use a simple utility to get the apps to your PC.
The software is a self-executable utility and does not need installation. Save the file to the desktop and run it.
The first time you run the utility, you will be greeted with a popup window asking you details of your Google account, password and the Android Device ID. Now enter the Gmail ID and password you are using on your smartphone.
In the next field, you need to enter the Device ID from your smartphone or tablet. Google checks this Device ID, validates it and then processes information to identify a genuine user. In order to pass this information to the Raccoon utility, you need to enter the Device ID in the respective field. Scroll down a bit and find the Device ID field. Once the Device ID is entered, you are ready to go. Simply search for the app you want to download and hit the download button. Downloading apps from Google Play can be easily done using this method.
There are quite a few other methods to do it too. Download the app on your smartphone, use a backup utility and transfer the apps to the PC. See below for the detailed steps. Warning : Note that downloading apps or games from 3 rd -party sources, not checked nor supported officially by Google, especially downloading the pirated paid apps, might be unsafe and they might contain malware. In no way, so we recommend installing third-party APKs, and you do this at your own risk.
In order to download an app on your computer, you need to find an Android package file, also known as an APK, which is the way Android apps are distributed and installed. You should only download APK files from trusted developers and companies. In order to run APK files on your computer, you need an emulator — more on them below. First, you need to find an APK for your app. If no luck, use a different website from Google results.
Once you downloaded the APK file of the app on your computer, install it using an emulator see below or you may want to transfer it to your Android device to install it.
When transferred, simply locate and click the file, and the installation should begin shortly. In case you wish to install the app or game on a Windows-based desktop, then you may have to install an Android emulator that will create the Android environment on your PC or Mac.
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