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Android Market

Web-based Android Market is now available

In its Honeycomb presentation, Google announced a new web-based version of the Android Market. This new website lets users easily browse and find Android applications. The layout is perfect for app discovery and includes both a carousel of featured applications and the familiar categories that are found on your Android device.

[video] Updated Gmail client for Android

The changes that came along with the latest update to the Gmail client for Android are quite substantial.  Google seems to have listened to the users, and gave us the two things we’ve been asking about the most – decent priority inbox support, and sending from another address.

Android market update

Android Market will get an update in the next couple of weeks

Few days ago Google announced that the Android Market will be getting an important upgrade over the next couple of weeks. All devices running on Android version 1.6 and up, and that’s about 94 percent of all Android devices will get the update. First and foremost, you’ll see a carousel of promoted applications on the [...]

New Application Licensing Service for Android Cracked

A few weeks ago Google announced a new licensing service for Android applications. The service, once added to software, would force an online ID check each time it was launched to ensure the person using the application did, in fact, pay for it. Piracy is a huge concern for Android developers, and it’s one of [...]

Google App Inventor for Android

Google seems to be very keen to make Android the most popular mobile operating system. Few days ago the company announced new revolutionary service, which allows all users to easily create applications for their phones. Basically users will not require any programming skills or knowledge to create an application, and anybody will be able to [...]

57% of Android applications are free

Distimo is a company that specializes on mobile application market analysis for different platforms. They have recently released interesting statistics on the proportion of free vs. paid applications for the Android Market, AppStore, OVI Store and others. They have also listed top 10 most popular free and paid applications for Android. The results are quite [...]

Android Market changes

Although the online version of the Android Market, is still inconvenient and almost useless, Google made one small, but important improvement – category selection. This is a small step in the right direction, and, hopefully, one day Market will become similar to the AppStore and provide users with advanced features.

Android Market vs AppStore

The other day I had to sign up for a new podcast. I usually do it through Apple iTunes as I am familiar with the interface and site design (as any other iPod or iPhone user). In order to subscribe, I opened the Store tab and searched for the required podcast. While I was doing [...]