Backup Android Apps using AirDroid

AirDroid is a free app  that allows you to wirelessly manage your Android phone or tablet from a PC using your favourite web browser.It has an awesome UI which not only is soothing for the eyes but makes this complicated process of backing up apps so easy and simplistic.

Let’s get to the tutorial now.

Requirements:

• Download AirDroid from the Google Play Store.
• A Windows/Mac/Linux computer on the same WiFi network as the phone.
• An Android phone or tablet, obviously!

Let’s get down to the actual tutorial now on how to backup Android apps on a phone or tablet using AirDroid, the easiest method to do it.

Step 1 - Open the AirDroid app on your phone and start the service. After it has been started, it would present a screen similar to this on your phone:

Step 2 - Enter the IP address (and port) into the URL box in your browser and enter the password which is provided on the phone. After doing that, your browser will look similar to this:

Step 3 - Now you can browse/backup your contacts, files and pictures. Bonus point is that you can also upload files to your device without the hassle of connecting your phone to your computer. To Backup app just click on the Apps icon and a window will open showing you all the apps present on your phone, like the following screenshot:

Step 4 - Select all the apps or just the important ones you want to backup.

Step 5 - After selecting them, click on the Download button present on the top-right of the window, like this:

Step 6 - After you press Download, AirDroid will download the selected apps to your computer in .ZIP format. In case, you selected only one app then the downloaded file will be in .APK format.

That’s it! The downloaded apps in your computer are now a backup of what you had installed on your phone – same version, same release. Remember, AirDroid does not download apps from the Internet while backing up, instead it copies them from your phone’s installed apps to your computer.

After all the apps have been downloaded, just extract the ZIP file into a folder which you can save it on your computer or later transfer it back to your Android device, whenever needed.