Android app update without market

I will have an alpha release of my application, which has not yet appeared on the market. I want the app’s APK link to be emailed to my friends so that they can download it from my CDN site.

One question here: if I want to give them updates, what would be a good way? Can I download the new APK in the application and somehow install the APK to replace the old one without any changes to the market? So, my friends can update the application while it is still in alpha version?

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When I did this, I used Zubhium - they were a web service with a small API that you could install in your application, providing you with a mini “application store” - a basic backend and processing for you. It will host and distribute your APK, connect to its server when the application starts, check for updates, undo old versions, collect crash logs for you, etc. It was very good.

Zubhium is now https://www.vessel.io - I suppose they still have the above features as part of their much more service now, but when I checked you had to give them a credit card number, even to sign up for a free plan, so I did not play with it.

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