I am creating a website to offer various functions, which are also offered in an Android phone application, the application weighs less than 30mb, but I do not know how I can add a download button, because if I do it as I find on other sites nothing is downloaded, instead it redirects me to another page which ends in a 404 error by the hosting with infinity free, could someone help me, is it necessary to be able to place a button to download that application, and directly it seems, if so, what could be the way?
InfinityFree is not for file sharing / software downloading. As a result, we are not going to help you.
What I can tell you is that “weighs less that 30mb” is still too much. No files here should go over 10 MB. No, don’t try to get over that, because software downloading is not allowed.
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What would be allowed is that you only send it to another site like Mega or Drive or Mediafire, or is that not allowed either?
If you put those in other file storage services, then it might be allowed, but please make sure that those don’t contain malwares or so.
Admin may have more insights on this.
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Okay, thanks, I’ll wait for more answers, at least from the administrator as you mentioned. Lastly, I would ask if they know of any way to make it a direct download, meaning to put it on another site, but that is more direct and not have to do more things elsewhere when I want to download it, or in any case to use Mediafire and know how to avoid the link expiring or something similar.
Linking to external download sites is fine to handle downloads from your website. Assuming of course that the content you’re sharing is all safe and legal.
File hosting is quite costly in terms of bandwidth, which is why we don’t allow file hosting, and most file hosting sites don’t allow direct downloads. Maybe there are exceptions, or ways to hack around the restrictions of popular file hosting services. But you may have to accept that there will be an additional download page that users will need to see, or that you may have to pay for storage if you want to offer direct downloads.
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I understand, thank you very much
Can i host files on github and make a direct download button, or do i need to link the github page?
GitHub supports direct downloads, so that’s definitely an option. If you publish your app on GitHub and use GitHub Releases to publish the built APK files, you can easily create direct download links from your website.
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