how to install CA certificate programmatically on Android without user interaction

Question

I\'m trying to install certificates without prompting the user. I know this is not good practice, but that\'s what PM wants.

Using KeyChain.createInstallIntent(), I

Answer 1

Based on the @ospider's answer, i managed to succesfully install the cert like this way:

adb shell mkdir -p /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added
adb push certificate.cer /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added/807e3b02.0

# Maybe these two lines are not strictly necessary...
adb shell chmod 644 /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added/807e3b02.0
adb shell chown system:system /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added/807e3b02.0

I got the name of the copied file (807e3b02.0) by installing manually the cert i wanted to automate and seeing how Android saved it (whith adb shell ls -l /data/misc/user/0/cacerts-added/)

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Hope this help.

Regards.