App which creates an new installable app

[TheGrovesy]

I think the answer is no but I wanted to check...

Is it possible to create an Android App which can itself generate an installable app file?

The reason for asking is that I was hoping to create an application (probably using Unity as I have a bit of experience with this) which the user can modify some settings and import some images (to customise the look and feel) and then be able to click a button which will compile and export their own installable Android app.

I have a feeling there might be two issues here, one is that this might be prevented as it could be a security/virus issue and Google stop this. The other is that if this is possible it will possibly be rather complex?

Any insight into this would be great.

 

[codesplice]

I think you can have your app generate an APK which the user can manually install. Tasker has done exactly that for years. The catch is that the user will have to enable the option to sideload APKs.

So yes, this should be possible - but I have no idea how complex it would be to build.