Silent installation on Android devices

Question

I\'ve accepted for a while now that it\'s impossible to silently install an application on Android - that is, to have a program install an application bundled as an APK with

Answer 1

You can ( in a very hackish way ) install apps silently using adb. You have to enable USB Debugging, but just push the APK to /data/app. ie:

adb push MyApp.apk /data/app

• or -

adb install MyApp.apk (cleaner way)

The second command MAY prompt for an installation, I don't remember off the top of my head.