Installing Apps on SD card without Rooting the phone

This post will demonstrate on how to install application on SD card of Android smartphone without rooting the phone.  This method is one of the safest way to do as this method does not contains any rooting. This method of installing Apps on SD card without rooting works for most of the Android smartphones such as Samsung Galaxy Ace,Samsung Galaxy Fit,Samsung Galaxy pop, Samsung Galaxy S2, LG optimus 2X, Dell XCD 35 and most of the android devices which uses Android Froyo or above.
For installing apps on SD card of android device we need to have latest Android SDK on a computer which  we use to install apps on smartphone. So let us start with installing Android SDK.

Downloading and Installing  latest Android SDK on PC:

• First download the latest Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html .
• Extract the package in your desired folder of PC.
• Run SDK manager.exe.
• New windows command prompt pops us. But nothing to do with that. Hence close that command prompt.
• In SDK and AVD manager explorer screen under available packages, select only USB driver for windows option and xxx.revision 5 .
• Click on  install selected packages.

Steps to install Apps on SD card:

• Enable USB debugging on Android phone. Go to Settings--> Applications-->Development--> USB debugging.
• Now connect your phone to PC through USB cable. Do not open PC suite of your phone such as Samsung kies.Do not mount the device. Just connect your phone to PC.
• Windows OS will prompt for new driver install.Choose to install them from the android-sdk-windows/extras/google/usb_driver folder.
• Run the command prompt as administrator.
• Type the code given below one by one and end each line add ">"(Without qoutes) 

           "cd C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools"  (" Here i have given C: drive path which consist android         sdk. If you have installed on other path make the changes on path)

           "adb devices"
            "adb shell"

            "pm setInstallLocation 2"  

          Use the these codes without quotes and end each line by >

• Close all the open windows and disconnect the phone from PC.
• Restart the phone.
• Now your phone is ready to install apps on SD card.

Note: 

• Even though apps are getting installed on SD card, each app store some .odex on phone memory to speed up phone booting. So more the apps you install, the phone memory becomes lesser.
• This method only enables SD card installation of Apps and does not move any apps.