How to Manually Install an Android APK File

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This process used to be completely different and it was three years ago when I wrote up a step by step tutorial to show you how it used to be done. That guide is still here for anyone with an older device that has stopped receiving new updates. I will just be pushing the older guide down to the bottom of this article. So feel free to scroll all the way down if you still need that information.

In recent versions of Android, Google changed the way to manually install an Android application APK file. Before all we had to do is tap a simple toggle and we could sideload an app from any other source. Now, we are required to manually grant install permissions for each source we want to install an app from and this is how we go about doing it.