Putting the project on your Android device

The following steps may be different for you depending on your Android version and your specific phone, but here is a general set of steps to be able to sideload our Android app to our device:

1. On your Android device, you’ll need to go to your Settings app. From there select the Apps section:

Figure 2.21 – The Settings | Apps location

2. From there, scroll down till you get to the Special app access section or similar, and then tap on it to go into the menu:

Figure 2.22 – The Special app access option

3. Inside there, you’ll see a section called Install unknown apps. Enter this option:

Figure 2.23 – The Install unknown apps option

4. We will be uploading our app to the device’s files, so we will want to enable Install unknown apps from the Files app. Select it and then enable it from the...