The good news is that your app selection is tied to the same Google account you use on your Android phone. When in doubt, going to the Settings menu on the Web store will show a list of past purchases ...

An increase in handset sales and a surge in its ad share are both positive indicators for Android, but most important from a development perspective is the number of apps headed to its marketplace.

Google’s mobile app store, the Android Market, has doubled in size in the last five months, and now hosts more than 20,000 applications, according to unofficial numbers from specialist portal AndroLib ...

It’s been 15 years since Google introduced the Android Market (now Google Play Store) on the T-Mobile G1 or HTC Dream. And 15 years since the mobile app ecosystem’s landscape was changed forever and ...

Google has decided to "break the 50MB barrier" by upping the maximum size of apps submitted to Android Market to 4GB. The move, detailed on the Android Developers blog, is designed to reflect the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Google announced earlier this week that it would soon implement a content rating system in ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Users of phones running Google Inc.'s Android operating system are getting more ways to browse and buy apps for playing games, reading the news and other tasks. The Internet ...

The iPhone was calling me. It was daring me to run free down the aisles of the Apple App Store in much the same way my 3-year-old son does when he hits our neighborhood Toys ‘R’ Us. But my cellphone ...

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Verizon officially unveiled details about the upcoming Droid. The iDon’t ad campaign pits the Android-based Droid head-to-head against the formidable iPhone. Based on preliminary predictions the Droid ...

Over the next several weeks, Android 1.6 will be rolling out to customers via an over-the-air update. In addition to a number of user-facing features such as a new Android Market and a faster camera ...