Installing and testing app on phone

How to install and test app

Enabling development options

As the APK itself has not been signed by a trusted developer (yet), we need to enable development options (more details on how to do that here).

This can simply be achieved by:

1. Go to Settings on your Android phone.
2. Scroll down to the About phone tab and open it.
3. Click on Software information.
4. Then, click on the Build number five times which should prompt a dialog whether you wish to enable developer mode (or similar).
5. Then go back to Settings, scroll all the way down, click on Developer options, and at the top toggle to enable it (it should say On if enabled).

How to install APK

1. To download the APK, simply go to the GitHub Releases here on your mobile device. Then click the app-release.apk to start downloading it.

2. When the APK is downloaded, you should be prompted whether to run it. If not, you can go to Files on your phone to find the downloaded APK file.

3. Then click on the APK, which should prompt whether to install the app on your phone.

4. When that is done, you can simply run the app as you would with any app.

Note that you can download any given APK. For instance the APK generated with GitHub Actions (see here). Just note that you need to be signed into GitHub and the artifact gets automatially deleted one month after creation.

To delete the app, simply do as you would any other app. Click and hold the app, which should prompt a dialog whether you wish to Uninstall it. Click uninstall and OK to remove it from the device.