How to Enable Installing Third Party Apps on Android

If you are an Android user, then its a natural thing that you would like to test new apps on your device, because everyone wants to try new things sometimes for knowledge, for work or for entertainment. Here is the case with Android Tablet or Smartphone owners, who want to test unique and different types of apps, not only from Google Play Store but also from the 3rd party websites. As third party websites are also giving a wide range of applications for Android which are valuable to Android users. These apps are called third party apps, so here is a guide to enable installing third party apps on Android devices.

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Why You Should Enable Third Party Apps Installation On Android?

  1. There is a lot of cool and interesting third party apps, that are very unique highly useful.
  2. Maximum users love to use paid applications in free.
  3. If no one could find through Google play and its great if you have an app with awesome features.
  4. Be the first to download and use an app before it comes to Google play

How To Enable Third Party Apps Installation:-

You cannot install any third party app directly on your Android devices because Google has not enabled this feature by default in Android OS. So to enable this feature and to install third party apps installation on your Android Smartphone or Tablet, follow these easy given below steps:-

Go to Menu >> Settings >> Applications >> Enable unknown sources >> Click OK in the popup.

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For Android OS version 2.3 and earlier:

Go to Settings >> Applications >> Tap and check “Unknown sources” box >> Tap ‘OK” when it show the warning.
Thats how you can enable the installation of APK files on your phone manually.

For Android OS version 4.0+:

Go to Settings >> Security >> Scroll down and check “Unknown sources” box >> Tap ‘OK” when it show the warning.
Now you can install 3rd party Apps through APK files on your device with Android 4.0+ OS.