Do You Know What Is Android Market?

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Android market is nothing, but an online store that sells software programs meant for Android phones (i.e.) The Smartphones that run with Android Operating System. Generally, these Smartphones comes pre-loaded with the market application and it can be used for downloading both cost free and paid applications. Developers generally upload the software programs created by them for this particular platform to the market and then they sell the same to the intended users at the decided cost. Generally, out of the cost paid by purchasers 70% will go to the developers, while the balance 30% will be divided among the carrier that provides service to the Android device that is used for purchasing the application and the payment processor.

Even though the website of Android market can be accessed from regular web browsers, it will have just limited information about the applications available. Only a summary of information about the highly used paid and free applications can be obtained from this website and the users cannot download any software program from this site. On the other hand, publishers are provided with the liberty ...
... to upload the created software programs and they can also create and modify their profiles.

So, for downloading of software programs onto their device, they will have to use the pre-installed software program available on their device. Generally, free apps can be downloaded by users belonging to any countries, but paid ones can be downloaded by users from specific countries only. Initially, when software programs were made available in the market, only users from the United Kingdom and the United States, were able to sell paid programs. Later, several countries like Spain, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, German, France, Canada and Australia were added thereby enabling the developers to publish their creations. The store will have a wide range of programs starting from maps, games, reference and even productivity applications. Even there are apps meant for accessing social networking sites.

Even though, some of the smartphones from some manufacturers are coming pre-loaded with the Android operating system, even users with other operating system are shifting to Android, just because of the facilities and features and for enjoying the shopping.

The Android operating system is based on the open source platform of the Linux Kernel and initially, it was developed by a company called Android Inc, which was later acquired by Google. These devices are controlled with the help of Java libraries that was developed by Google.

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