Batch Installation of Android Apps (When moving to new device or after resetting)

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Is there a way to make a list of apps on the play store, whereby I have all the apps on said list install to a device with one click?

Context: I have different sets of "core" apps for different devices (phone/tablet) and from time to time, I find myself needing to reinstall all the apps. There are two different scenarios in which this would occur.
1) When my device slows down, either by means of certain apps bogging it down as time progresses or my own stupidity. In this case, I want to factory reset and have the core apps reinstalled. I don't want to use google to keep my apps backed up, because I do not want any non-core apps to be reinstalled.
2) Migrating to a different device.

What I am doing currently, is keeping links to the core apps in a bookmark folder. When I need to reinstall all apps, I opening all the links at once on my PC, then go through each tab manually installing each app. It's really a pain and I get asked for a password every few installs.

I know that on an android device, I can use the my apps tab in the play store to select multiple apps, then batch install, but on an android device, it can be a pain to go through a list of every app I have ever installed.

Isn't there a way to create a list once (and edit later), then just open the list and have an option to install all apps on a selected device? Maybe even access the list from my android device to one touch install all apps?
 
I just tap my old phone to my new one
 
Thanks for the replies, guys, but not what I was looking for.

@ponder, you were closest to the answer I was looking for. However, it seems Droidadmin sideloads APKs. If I am not mistaken, it means those apps can't be automatically updated by the play store.

I was hoping there was a way to make a custom app bundle on the play store that I could deploy to any device with a click of a button. Alas, I don't think the play store supports this.
 
@ponder, you were closest to the answer I was looking for. However, it seems Droidadmin sideloads APKs. If I am not mistaken, it means those apps can't be automatically updated by the play store.

I was hoping there was a way to make a custom app bundle on the play store that I could deploy to any device with a click of a button. Alas, I don't think the play store supports this.
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If you get your apps from the play store it 'should' work (not sure about paid apps though) as the play store app will recognise the apk signatures etc. See link at bottom of post.

I made a quick test for you, use my code 32222837 added mxplayer and vlc using direct links to the playstore (there are websites that will generate the links for you that you can paste into filelinked/droidadmin). Once you have installed the apps open playstore and search for them and you will see playstore recognises them as installed and gives the option to uninstall or open them. Or make your own code with an app you know that gets regular updates to test with.

Worth a test...

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/100224/will-play-store-update-a-sideloaded-apk
 
@ponder Thanks! This should make things a bit easier.

The last time I tried to side load an app, expecting the play store to recognize it, must have been at least 5 years back and so it didn't work. Glad to see Google had changed that.

Now if only they could add the feature I am looking for.
 
Ghost729 said:
@ponder Thanks! This should make things a bit easier.

The last time I tried to side load an app, expecting the play store to recognize it, must have been at least 5 years back and so it didn't work. Glad to see Google had changed that.

Now if only they could add the feature I am looking for.
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I just got a playstore notification for a vlc update which i installed via droidadmin round about the time of the previous post so it definitely works ;)
 
ponder said:
I just got a playstore notification for a vlc update which i installed via droidadmin round about the time of the previous post so it definitely works ;)
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Any way to automate sideloading via droidadmin? I like adblink but it's buggy and fails alot. It would be convenient to sideload directly from droidadmin to the firestick.
 
Might be way off base here, but wasn't titanium back up a thing in the roming days
 
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