Pokemon Go is a little more than a week old now. Although the game is presently available in a few countries, including US, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, many fans have found other methods to download and play it.
While the game is available on various torrent and app hosting websites, the simplest way of using the game is by downloading an APK file. Users download the apk file, copy it on their phone’s internal storage and tap on it from any file browser app. The game gets installed and ready to play.
(In case you want to download the game, you can click on the links given below.)
Also read: How to download and play Pokemon Go on Android in India
Also read: How to download Pokemon Go on iOS in India
Note: The method mentioned above to download the game on iOS is legal and safer than the Android one.
However, installing third-party apps requires users to enable security setting from the smartphone, which could cause security issues and malware infections. Of note, there have been reports of Pokemon Go being infected with malware supplied on third-party apps.
Following which, Nintendo, San Francisco spinoff of Google’s parent Alphabet, who created the game have submitted takedown notices to Google in order to prevent the malware from spreading on the Android platform.
However, it is impossible for the developers to remove all apk files from the internet, as the game could be installed from other locations such as file hosting websites, third-party market apps, torrents and P2P sharing websites. There is no way for sure to takedown apk files from websites because apk files can be easily renamed and shared across.
Besides it, John Hanke, chief executive of Niantic, who developed Pokemon Go jointly with Nintendo, said that the company is planning to release the game in roughly 200 countries and regions “relatively soon.” However, he declined to reveal a detailed timeframe for the rollouts.
