KITKAT DEVICES: Google imposed several restrictions in Android 4.4.x Kitkat for non-system user apps. External MicroSD card is not freely manageable anymore as before. Now you can write to MicroSD only into a specific app-dedicated location and My APKs will help you to choose it when you go to SETTINGS and change the backup folder. Or you can decide to manually select a folder (of internal storage, for example). Generally, rooted devices can write everywhere.

CAUTION: if you backupped to the MicroSD app-dedicated location and you uninstall My APKs, YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR SAVED APK because Android removes that app-dedicated location when uninstalling My APKs. To avoid that, before uninstalling My APKs make a copy onto a PC/USB or move into another location of your MicroSD with the system file manager of your device. Please note it's Android to delete the app-dedicated location, not My APKs.

LOLLIPOP AND NEWER DEVICES: since Android 5.0 Lollipop to write everywhere on external MicroSD card you must explicitly acquire write permission on it. This is possible with My APKs Pro try it!


OVERVIEW

apk = Android application

My APKs will make a backup of installed applications on your phone/tablet, allowing you to restore them without an internet connection and avoiding Google Play long search and download times.
Moreover, My APKs will give you the power of easily sharing apps with peoples or devices by email, bluetooth, wifi, instant messaging and loading onto remote storage (doing de facto a cloud backup).
Another important aspect of My APKs is its ability to generate a report of installed applications with Google Play links.

My APKs is very light (about 500 kb!) and not intrusive (it requires very few permissions to operate).

NOTE: My APKs doesn't use/require root permissions therefore it cannot backup app settings and data, it only backups the apk.


MAIN ACTIONS

If you tap menu icon (three squares on the title bar) a sliding menu will allow you the following actions:

Donate/In-app shows the donations and the items you can buy with in-app purchase to support the development. Please note donations do not unlock extra features nor remove promo. They are just donations ("A donation is money or other thing given typically for charitable purposes and/or to benefit a cause"). The SYNC AND KILL button should force an account synchronization (requires internet connection) and kills the app that should restart, useful to get updated purchases if your device is lazy.

Backup saves a copy of all applications installed on your phone/tablet into the memory storage location of your preference (you specify it in SETTINGS, see below). My APKs is also capable of doing an incremental backup by skipping already backupped apps and adding only new ones, resulting in a very fast backup process (again in SETTINGS, set skip for apk collision mode). For every paid/protected/not backuppable app My APKs will save an html file containing apk details, appstore links and error message. These special .apk.html files are automatically processable with My APKs Install during restore phase (see MORE APPS).

Verify (*) does a comparison between installed and backupped applications to guarantee the integrity of backup (for example, your MicroSD card may be damaged), avoiding future failing restore operation.

Report creates a list of applications present in your device in HTML, PDF or TXT format and (if you configured it in SETTINGS) opens and/or shares it when the report generation is done.

Restore shows apk found into My APKs backup folder (configured in SETTINGS) and reinstalls those you selected. Please note that during restore process you must confirm installation of every single apk, as required by Android security rules. This can appear tedious, however is much more fast than launching manually many apk with a file manager or, worst, reinstall all from Google Play with an internet connection. To help you with frequent or massive restore operations we created My APKs Install and if your device is rooted you can even avoid to confirm every installation (see MORE APPS).

Search asks you to enter some text (probably the name of an app you would install) to be researched on Google Play.

Settings is where you can configure many aspects of My APKs like backup location, report format, warning alert, appearence theme and so on.

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Device storage opens standard Android memory management.

Refresh reloads the list of applications present in your device, useful if you install something new while My APKs is already loaded in memory.

More apps all the applications developed by us.

Feedback opens your email client and sets a message which you can fill and send us with your suggestions, requests, bug segnalations and so on.

About/History shows information about My APKs and lists all changes since its first version.

You can exit from the app by pressing BACK key twice.

CONTEXTUAL MENU

If you tap a list item a contextual menu will allow you the following actions:

Details gives extended information about the application and let copy these into the clipboard.

Backup saves the application into backup location (configured in SETTINGS).

Verify (*) does a comparison between installed and backupped apk to guarantee the integrity of backup.

Delete backup removes the backupped apk (if it exists) from the backup location.

Copy to saves the application into the folder you select, useful if you need to extract an app without altering the current content of your backup folder.

Share (apk) allows the sharing of the application as attachment via email, bluetooth, wifi, instant messaging, storage apps and others.

Share (url) allows the sharing of Google Play link of the application.

Open playstore loads the application page on Google Play.

Hash (*) calculates apk digital hash with different algorithm (md5, sha-1, crc32) very useful when comparing to an extracted apk. You can even copy the hash into the clipboard.

Launch executes the application.

Uninstall removes the application from the device and keeps the backup synchronized (as configured in SETTINGS).

Manage runs standard Android management of the application.

Items marked with * are available as in-app purchase. There are more items you can purchase in-app, please see DONATE/IN-APP for the full list and SETTINGS to configure them.