With Android Ore, only the app you grant the permission to Install unknown apps can actually install other apps.įor instance, if you download an APK from Chrome and tap on the download notification to install it, you’ll have to grant Chrome the permission to install unknown apps. Now there’s no way of ensuring that this safe app won’t install other apps, not from the Play Store. Say, you installed an app from the Play Store which is pretty safe. However, there was no way of ensuring some other app won’t take advantage of this situation. Maybe it’s a third-party app market that you’ve enabled the setting for. You may have allowed this while installing an APK from a developer or source that you trust. Why? Well, once you allow installation of APKs from other sources on Android versions prior to Oreo, it becomes a potential breeding ground for malware. Moreover, Unknown sources or install APK files or unknown apps rather has a dedicated page to itself rather than simply being a checkbox entry. Google has made the process more secure in Android Oreo and renamed the setting to Install unknown apps, and changed where its located. Prior to Android Oreo, to install an APK not downloaded from the Play Store, you could simply check the box next to Unknown sources in Settings > Security. Enabling Unknown sources might be one of the first things some of you probably do after getting a new phone. The Google Play Store is good enough for them, but if you’re here you’ve most probably sideloaded Android apps before. Believe it or not, many, many Android users have never known that Android allows users to install apps from sources other than the Google Play Store.
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