Using Android Market for beginners

People not familiar with Android often ask how the Android Market works and how is the installation of applications on Android devices? I tell:

Android Market for Android is the same as the App Store for the Apple iPhone. That is, a specialized site from which you can download (and buy) software for mobile devices. Unlike the iPhone, software for which you can legally download only from the App Store, android allows you to load programs from anywhere. Now there are several alternative software directories, but the official Android Market is the first, main and largest of them.

So how does this all happen?
Most android phones have the Market app of the same name preinstalled. We start.
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“Applications” is a directory by topics, “Games” are games, “Search” is a search, “My downloads” is something that is already installed. Suppose I read somewhere that the NewsRob application is a good RSS client, what next? Go to the search.



I really have a NewsRob already installed, but the market offers me to upgrade.



Click OK and go ...



Seconds after 20 he gives in the status line (the one on top) confirmation that the application is installed. You can run and work. Currently, only free applications are available in Russia. In the android world, reception is quite common when an application exists in a paid (PRO) version and functionally curtailed free. We respectively see in the market only free versions. This does not mean that free versions are completely useless. For example, Twidroid (Twitter client) is fully functional. PRO version allows you to work with multiple accounts and change color themes, the other differences are not significant.

I want to remind you that the Android Market actually exists for only a year. There is not all settled, and something that continues to change. For example, in android version 1.5 and younger there are no screenshots in the program description, but in 1.6 and older there are.

And as I already wrote, the Android Market has alternatives to the example of Slideme.org and AndAppstore.com

Here w3bsit3-dns.com.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=137860 there is a description of the “dancing with a tambourine” rite to open access to paid applications.



This does not mean that applications for android can be installed only via the Internet. They can be downloaded to the desktop computer in the form of .apk packages (as is often the case, this is a masked zip). Then copy to SD card and put from there.

Launch one of the most popular Astro file managers and open a daddy with .apk files. In the first picture - these are all application distributions. We select for example iReader (book reader in the form of .txt files)



Astro launches its application installer



Then everything is like in the market. As you can see everything is simple and takes seconds.

What does this give us? Any Russian will understand that this gives us the opportunity to "bypass" to install paid applications. Not that it would be a pity for the money, the programs cost $ 3-5 each, but there is no access. And there is no court. In short, I have a couple of “paid” programs. To find them was not very difficult.