Tablets from the Ideas Box come pre-configured. However, last-minute needs may arise on-site.
You must therefore be responsive to these needs!
We strongly recommend that you use a computer with Linux for all operations described below.
There are two different procedures you can choose from to install new applications on the tablets.
Activate Google Play Store on all the tablets
Bulk installation of applications via a computer instead of Google Play Store
The Google Play Store solution could be practical if your partner wishes to enjoy a level of independence and plans to install new applications regularly. However, this procedure is not recommended in areas with low-speed Internet access, as the applications must be downloaded onto each tablet. (One application may take up to 150 MB.) That said, this procedure could be reassuring for a partner with limited technical skills. Know that you are entering into the Google universe at your own risk, but this is practically unavoidable if you wish to use applications which must be purchased.
The solution without Google Play Store is very interesting but requires some technical skills and may require you to train the partner in this regard. In addition, as we are using the bash script with the ADB utility, we can also take the opportunity to remove unnecessary applications or those that do not work. In this case, the applications are only downloaded once, which could be appropriate in areas with low-speed Internet access. In the fisrt time, you will have to download Android Yalp Store software in order to download all the needed apps, afterwards, you will have to copy them back to your computer and move to the next step Installing and removing applications in bulk
This allows you to install the latest, most up-to-date, applications.
Configure the Google Apps on the tablet with the previously created account
Once saved, download the applications you wish to add to the tablets
At this point, you have downloaded your free applications and purchased others. You must now create a back-up of your new applications so they can be applied to all your tablets.
ATTENTION This application ONLY saves applications and does not save data. This means that some applications saved AND restored on another tablet will not work. To save data, your tablet must be ROOTED!
Open File Expert
Open the left-hand menu, Icon (=)
Scroll down to Categories and click on Applications
Select Applications installées (Installed Applications)
In the panel that opens, select (by holding down) the applications you wish to save.
Once completed, click on the icon on the top-right, of a circle with a dot in the middle. This will start to save all the applications that you selected.
Once the back-up is made, open the left-hand menu again and select Stockage interne (Internal storage), click on backup_apps and you should find all your applications saved.
Lastly, to retrieve them on your workstation, connect the tablet to your computer using the USB cable.
You now have all the applications you have downloaded and are ready to install them on your tablets.
If this is the first time you are connecting a Danew tablet to your computer, the latter may not be able to communicate correctly with Danew tablets. You must therefore run this command in a terminal
echo "0x0e8d" > ~/.android/adb_usb.iniAnd add this line
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0e8d", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
A utility called ADB available for Linux uses a command line to install a collection of .apk files (Android applications) on an Android device.
If the ADB utility is not installed on your PC, here is the command to run to install it on a Linux system:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
The default setting does not enable you to install applications directly from the command line. If the Google Play pack is not installed on the device, the only way to install applications is via the utility with the ABD command line.
You may have to uninstall some applications in order to install others because of a lack of memory space.
To do so, you must find the name of the application.
Ex : Helium - App Sync and Backup
The URL contains the application’s full name : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?noprocess&id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en
The app name is just after id= therefore com.koushikdutta.backup
Find and input all the applications you wish to remove in a file app_a_supprimer.csv
If your applications were on a tablet, send them to your computer in a folder named apk
android_app somewhere on your computer (e.g.: /home/)app\_a\_supprimer.csv and the folder apk to your new folder android\_appCreate a file and paste the content below
#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
adb uninstall $line
done < "app_a_supprimer.csv"find apk/ -name '*.apk' -exec adb install -r {} \;
Open a terminal
Move to your work folder, e.g. cd /home/android_app
Authorise file delete_install_android_app.sh to run with chmod +x delete_install_android_app.sh
script./delete_install_android_app.sh