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This list of mobile app distribution platforms includes digital distribution platforms, or marketplace 'app stores', intended to provide mobile applications, aka 'apps' to mobile devices. For information on each mobile platform and its market share, see the mobile operating system and smartphone articles.
The Google Play Store, originally called Android Market, was released on October 22, 2008, alongside the T-Mobile G1. [4] Over 50 apps were initially available, with this number rising to around 2.8 million in 2020. [5] Google Play is currently supported on Android smartphones & tablets, ChromeOS, Android TV, Wear OS, and the web.
The Google Play Store (originally the Android Market), operated and developed by Google, serves as the official app store for Android, allowing users to download apps developed with the Android software development kit (SDK) and published through Google. The store offers both free and paid apps.
As of 2024, thousands of Android applications have surpassed the one-million download milestone, with a significant subset reaching even higher thresholds. For context, in July 2017 that there are 319 apps which have been downloaded at least 100 million times and 4,098 apps have been downloaded at least ten million times. [ 1 ]
Android Market was announced by Google on August 28, 2008, [29] [30] and was made available to users on October 22. [31] [32] In December 2010, content filtering was added to Android Market, each app's details page started showing a promotional graphic at the top, and the maximum size of an app was raised from 25 megabytes to 50 megabytes.
They look like SMS notifications but they reach only the users who installed the app. The specifications vary for iOS and Android users. SMS and push notifications can be part of a well-developed inbound mobile marketing strategy. According to mobile marketing company Leanplum, Android sees open rates nearly twice as high as those on iOS.
Google Android Emulator - an Android emulator that is patched to run on a Windows PC as a standalone app, without having to download and install the complete and complex Android SDK. It can be installed and Android compatible apps can be tested on it.
The popularity of Apple's App Store led to the rise of the generic term "app store", as well as the introduction of equivalent marketplaces by competing mobile operating systems: the Android Market (later renamed to Google Play) launched alongside the release of the first Android smartphone (the HTC Dream) in September 2008, [27] BlackBerry's ...