How to extract the installation file of an Android app

If you're interested in downloading the APK of an Android application, you've come to the perfect place. Before, we are going to define some terms with which, perhaps, you are not too used. Perhaps, by the end of reading this article, you have learned a little more about the Android world, now that a new version is about to appear.

What is the APK of an Android app?

The APK is the executable file that installs the application on your mobile. When we go to the Play Store and download an app, we are downloading its APK.Then, we install it and we already have it available on our phone. And there are times when we want to have a backup copy of it. On what occasions? Imagine you need to save space on your phone. To do this, one of the options is to delete applications. What happens when you need it again?

Right now, in the Play Store there is no way that you can have, ordered, all the applications that you paid for. They are all mixed, free and paid, and in order of installation. What if you bought one when you got your first Android phone, back in 2007, and now you want to get it back? And you don't remember what it was called, of course. For that it is essential to have backups on our phone

How to download the APK of an Android app?

To download the installation file of an Android app we must download, precisely, an application from the Play Store called APK Extractor, an extremely simple app that anyone can learn to use in a matter of minutes.Once downloaded, install it like any other app.

Once opened, you will only see a screen with all the applications you have installed on your phone, both the system ones and those you have been downloading throughout the phone's life. Be careful with it as it is very invasive. We must take into account that the application is free, although we have a paid version without ads for 1 euros. Whether it's worth paying for is your decision.

App Extractor Interface

If you want to choose between system applications and downloaded you must enter the settings menu. Press the three horizontal dots at the top right of the screen. Then 'Settings'. Here you can change sections such as:

• The place where you want the APKs to be downloaded
• The format you want it to have
• Classify applications between system and downloaded: very interesting option, because this way you will be able to see more easily which are the apps for which you have paid and thus keep them safe.
• You can automatically download the APKs of the new apps that you download from that moment on.

To download an APK you just have to go to the desired application. In our case, we are going to extract the installation file of Blue Light Filter Pro, the paid version of a famous Android app. This application applies a bluish color filter to rest your eyes. To download its APK, all you have to do is click on it. And that's it. Made.

With a file manager you can find the APK

How to locate the extracted APK

Then, if you want to locate the installation file, you just have to use a file manager (most Androids usually have one If not, search in the Play Store) and locate the folder where they are saved. By default, they are all stored in a folder called ExtractedApks. If you enter, you will see that we already have one downloaded.

And it's that easy to download an installation file for an Android app. You will no longer lose any that you have purchased.