How to Download Android Apps

Easily Find and Download Popular Android Apps

While Android Apps Can be Found in the Google Play Store, the Best Android Apps are Often Found Online

If you only look for apps in the Google Play Store, you could be missing out on a huge source of popular apps which have the ads removed, are fully unlocked or offer tons of free TV shows and movies.

Downloading apps from the Internet, can be risky. Always scan any downloaded apps with an online malware scanner. But the risk could be worth it because some of the best apps have been banned from the Google Play store and they are worth looking into.

When downloading Android apps online to minimize the risks, run them through a malware scanner either on your device, or using an online virus scanner.

Many of the more popular Android apps have been banned from the Google Play store. And often, they have some of the best content for Android devices.

Best Sources To Download Android Apks

There are several great third party app stores that can be used instead of Google Play. Here are some of the more popular online app sites:

One nice thing about using these app stores is the files are already scanned for malware before they are uploaded.

APKMirror
APKPure
APK Store
Aptoide
Yalp Store

Download a Web Browser

Using 3rd party App Store web sites, requires a web browser to be installed on your Android smartphone or media player. If you don't have a web browser installed yet. Simply go to Google Play and search for a web browser. Any one of these pictured below is a good choice.

Better Than 3rd Party App Stores

While online 3rd party Android App Stores have their place. They also contain a bunch of tricky ads. They try to trick you into clicking their ads by purposely making the download link hard to find.

This means it's easy to spend a considerable amount of time trying to find the stupid download link which is well hidden on the page on purpose to trick as many users as possible to click on their ads.

They typically use GIANT DOWNLOAD button ads, and they are everywhere, flashing big text that begs you to click thinking that is where you need to go to download a file.

Here's a Much Better Way to Download Android Apps

To avoid this fake download button nightmare, try finding Android app sites online that are the back end to these type of download sites. These are single page sites which feature a directory or single page list of apps. And each title can be clicked directly to download instantly and then added to your favorite Android device without any graphics or annoying fake download ads.

But these sites do require a little more diligence on your part. And as we already mentioned, any downloaded Android app should always be scanned for malware.

Direct downloading apps from sites like these still requires a web browser. But it's a million times faster to find something you are looking for and you can download it instantly. It's also easy to browse for newly updated files by the same name and see when something new was added.

Here's how to find a couple really good direct download sites as shown in the picture below.

Using the method above is the easiest and fastest way to download Android Apps. With the right website, it will supply you with every app you could ever need.

To install these apps, you will need to download a good file manager like X-Plore from Google Play also. From the X-Plore app, browse to your download folder. And then on the apps you downloaded, long click the app and the option to install or delete it will pop-up.

Once installed you can open the app like any other and access a lot of great additional content which can't be found in the Android Google Play Store.