title: Android, sideloading applications and keep them up to date via Google Play
body: <p>My company would like to give an Android device to a group of our selected customers.</p>
  
  <p>Doing that, we would like to provide users with our mobile app. The app is already on Google Play, but we would like to avoid users downloading and installing by themselves. We prefer to give the device ready, with the app already installed.</p>
  
  <p>We found several ways to manually install an APK on the phone without having to login to the market. But it seems that doing that, the user will not be able to update the app via <code>Google Play</code>, as the app would not be recognized as installed.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea?</p>