Tuesday, November 5, 2013

How to download restricted apps from Play Store

There are a lot of questions that start with "Why…" when it comes to Android apps, but the most annoying of them all why would not a well-known app from Play Store not work on all devices. Considering that Android devices are not restricted to download and install only from Play store like all iDevices do with App Store, users can test non-Market apps by activating Unknown sources on their Android device. We have seen in the past apps or ports of some apps work on devices where developers said that won’t work or there are region locked. But not all developers obey this marketing scheme and they really say that their app won’t work on some device because of deprecated hardware configuration or old Android version.



You can download any free app that has restrictions from Play Store to your device using this cool web tool called APK Downloader. I think some of you did not understand the mechanism, well to make it simple here’s an example. Because I own Samsung Galaxy S with stock Android 2.3.4 I can’t install BBM on my device. So in this case I had two ways by generating a download link first using the Play Store app address or the name of the package in my case com.bbm. After using this tool for a while I was stunned to see that most apps worked well on my device. If you want to test restricted apps just visit http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

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