Questions tagged [sideloading]

The process of transferring data between two local devices. In terms of mobile devices it means to use USB, BT, NFC, memory-card or a local network instead of online app stores like Marketplace, Google Play, iTunes.

Sideloading is a term used in Internet culture, similar to "upload" and "download", but in reference to the process of transferring data between two local devices, in particular between a computer and a mobile device such as a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet, portable media player or e-reader.

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UWP, C# Problem with Page.Resource in Sideloaded package

I'm developing an application in UWP c#. I have tried to publish and create my application package for sideloading and I did it. The Problem has appeared since I used tag in XAML for setting controls' styles and also create DataTemplate... In…
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update uwp app from usb drive on raspberry pi

I have a Universal Windows App I created in visual studio 2017. I have deployed this app on my raspberry Pi and it is running good. I also have create a package using 2017. I want to add an update button to my app and when pressed it would look…
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Check if build was sideloaded or downloaded from App/Play Store

React Native uses __DEV__ internally to check whether an app is a dev or release build. We use that to determine whether we should point to our staging or production environments. _host = (__DEV__) ? 'https://staging-api.foo-app.com' :…
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Why do I get error 34018 for keychain when side-loading an app?

I have tried to side-load YouTube, but the issue is in login. I get the web login page for Google, and login fine but afterwards I get the message inside app that I am using YouTube in signed-out mode. If I press the account settings page, I get the…
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Windows 10 AppInstaller hangs at 16%

I created a simple Xamarin Blank App targeting only the UWP platform. Then I created packages to deploy app in sideloading mode. Then the installation works well on my development machine but when I tried to install it on an other PC without Visual…
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Updating UWP Sideloaded Apps

We have an LOB app that we share with our clients. It is a UWP app and we provide a link to the user from where they can download it. The app is set to check for update every time it runs. VS has taken care of the manifest information for us and we…
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Windows Phone 7 IsolatedStorage when sideloading

Is there a way when I am testing my own app (sideloaded to my phone), that I can treat my version as an update to my original application. Lets say I'm going from 1.5 to 1.6 of my app. I want to use the exact same IsololatedStorage data that is in…
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Visual Studio add CN= in Identity Publisher Field in appxmanifest File

I'm currently developping an UWP application for another company. I don't have the real certificate used to sign the app so i tried to generate a temporary certificate using a given publisher name. The publisher name should look like this so the…
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SIdeloading uwp app to mobile device

I am following this article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/install-universal-windows-apps-with-the-winappdeploycmd-tool to sideload an app on a phone. I am having trouble understanding what is meant by .appx file.…
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Sideloaded app requires package Microsoft.VCLibs.120.00 on my build server

In trying to run integration tests on my windows store app but the sideloading of my test appx file fails with error (0x80073CF3): Windows cannot install package (my package GUID) because this package depends on another package that could not be…
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Appxmanifest definition for sideloading app

I have a active app on the Windows Store. I want to distribute this app via a MDM system (MobileIron). My store appxmanifest looks like this:
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Unable to sideload UWP app from app package

I am trying to side load an app that I developed on the same computer. I am following these instructions: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454036.aspx . It says that when a package is created there should be the following…
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How to sideload apps to WinX Mobile

I have an app that works perfectly on my developer (put in developer mode) phones, now I want to sideload this app to my other phones (put in sideloading mode) but I can't figure out how to do this. I have tried to upload the .appx to the phones but…
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Windows 8.1 enterprise side loaded app windows launch contract was blocked with error 0x80073CFC

I have a store app that is side loaded in windows 8.1 enterprise device, that device is a. Domain joined. “Allow all trusted apps to install” policy setting is enabled. App is signed by a Thawte certificate which is by default a trusted root…
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Install Windows 10 appxbundle on windows 10 mobile

I have created windows 10 universal app. I am able to install it on desktop using powershell, but not able to install on phone. In W10 we can directly sideload apps by enabling setting for the same. As far I found two ways to install on phone: 1)…
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