Android · beta
Aavanu for Android
This button always hands out the newest build. It is not the Play Store version — Aavanu is not in the store yet — so Android will ask twice whether you really meant it. Both questions are expected, and Installing it says what to tap.
What you are getting
Read off the file itself, so this is whatever went up last rather than whatever was true when the page was written.
| File | — |
|---|---|
| Version | — |
| Built for | — |
| Size | — |
| Built | — |
| SHA-256 | — |
Installing it
- Tap the button above. Your browser will say this kind of file can harm your device. That warning is about where a file came from rather than what is in it, and it appears for every app that did not come from the Play Store. Choose Download anyway.
- Open the file from the download notification, or from Files → Downloads.
- Allow your browser to install apps, the first time only. Android will offer a Settings button that goes straight to the switch; turn on Allow from this source and come back.
- Install, then Open. If Play Protect offers to scan it first, let it — it takes a second and it will pass.
Nothing else is needed. There is no profile to install and no developer mode to turn on; that is iOS, not Android.
Updating later
Come back to this page and install the new one over the top. Every build here is signed with the same key, so Android treats it as an upgrade: you stay signed in and nothing is cleared. Uninstalling first works too, and costs you nothing but the sign-in.
One thing to know before the store version arrives
This build is signed with the project's development key — the one in the repository, which anybody can reproduce. That is fine for handing somebody a build to try, and it is exactly why it cannot be the build in the store.
So when Aavanu reaches Google Play you will have to uninstall this one before installing that one: Android refuses to replace an app with a build signed by a different key. Everything you created while signed in lives in your account rather than on the phone, so it is all there when you sign in again.
On an iPhone?
There is nothing to put on this page for iOS — Apple has no equivalent of this, by design. The iPhone build goes out through TestFlight instead. Email support@aavanu.com and you will be on it when the first one goes up.