installing android app from notification bar

Question

According to my app concept we are not submitting the app in play store.

Whenever the user launches the app, it checks for the latest update through a web service. If there is a latest apk available in server it will be downloaded to a particular path in sd card. The downloading process is shown in the notification bar. Here comes my problem.

After download is completed, the notification is shown in Notification bar as "App is completed downloading" with app icon. Now when the user touches the my apps notification i want it to be either installed or need to open the sd card path. How to implement this process

possible duplicate of [Install Application programmatically on Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604239/install-application-programmatically-on-android) — , Sep 23 '14 at 14:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '14 at 14:04

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Try this:

     Intent install_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
     install_intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() + "/myapp.apk")),"application/vnd.android.package-archive");
     PendingIntent pending = PendingIntent.getActivity(YourAcrtivity.this,0, install_intent, 0);
     notification.setContentIntent(pending);

answered Sep 23 '14 at 14:04

Naruto Uzumaki

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@SivaK When your download complete. How did you downloaded file? – Naruto Uzumaki Sep 24 '14 at 08:42
what if the download happens for the first time ? before the the current app is already there ? – amIT Nov 18 '14 at 20:00

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