{"id":1595,"date":"2013-03-12T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xctechs.info\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:19:47","slug":"enabling-the-installation-of-unknown-sources-on-your-android-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Enabling the Installation of Unknown Sources on your Android Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re trying to install an application on your Android device that\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0being installed directly through the Google Play store, more likely \u00a0you\u2019ll encounter an error informing you that the installation of unknown sources to your device is not allowed. It\u2019s very easy to correct this issue, and it is something that most Android users could benefit from, because there is a ton of other good software other than XBMC that\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0yet available in the Google Play store either, which you might want to take advantage of right away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENABLING THE INSTALLATION OF UNKNOWN SOURCES ON YOUR ANDROID DEVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>: Open the \u201cSettings\u201d menu icon on your Android device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1596 aligncenter\" alt=\"settings_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/settings_icon.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>: Navigate to the \u201cSecurity\u201d tab within the \u201cSettings\u201d menu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Android_install_step011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1597 aligncenter\" alt=\"Android_install_step01\" src=\"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Android_install_step011.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3<\/strong>: Toggle the \u201cUnknown Sources\u201d\u00a0check-box\u00a0in order to Enable the installation of Unknown Sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Android_install_step022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1598 aligncenter\" alt=\"Android_install_step02\" src=\"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Android_install_step022.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>: That\u2019s it. You may now return to the main menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations<\/strong>! You can now go ahead and install XBMC until it\u2019s available in the Google Play store, or install pretty much any other independent application that\u00a0hasn&#8217;t\u00a0yet been submitted to Google for Play Store installation.<\/p>\n<p>( info taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmcandroid.com\">xbmcandroid.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re trying to install an application on your Android device that\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0being installed directly through the Google Play store, more likely \u00a0you\u2019ll encounter an error informing you that the installation of unknown sources to your device is not allowed. It\u2019s very easy to correct this issue, and it is something that most Android users could &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[762,157,763,193,3,454,14,488],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-android","tag-android","tag-app","tag-blog","tag-check-box","tag-front-page","tag-source","tag-tutorials","tag-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}