{"id":14907,"date":"2016-08-22T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2016\/08\/22\/android-scan-apk-before-install-them\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T23:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:18:37","slug":"android-scan-apk-before-install-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2016\/08\/22\/android-scan-apk-before-install-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Android: scan APK before install them"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i68.tinypic.com\/nfk09h.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.APK are the installation files of Android applications (packages).<br \/>\nOver the Play Store you can download apps from other sources and then transfer them to the device (this is also called sideload), also you enabled the Unknown sources option in Security settings of your device you can install the APKs.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a problem, the APK you download from unknown sources could contain viruses\/malware.<br \/>\nBefore you install them a scan is highly recommanded.<br \/>\nThere are various online scan services, as they use different engines the results are reliable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VirusTotal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metadefender.com\/#!\/scan-file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metadefender<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>.APK are the installation files of Android applications (packages). Over the Play Store you can download apps from other sources and then transfer them to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3483,3486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services","category-web-en"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/services\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Services<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/web-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Web<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Services<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Web<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 22, 2016","modified":"Updated on October 14, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 22, 2016 10:59 am","modified":"Updated on October 14, 2019 11:18 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}