Recently, Google rebranded its Android Market and renamed it to Google Play. Google has also updated the Android Market app to the new Google Play Store app on Android phone and tablet. If your phone hasn’t updated automatically, you can easily update Android Market app to the brand new Google Play app. Here is how it is.
If you have recently updated your Android phone’s firmware from Froyo to Gingerbread, or to the new Ice Cream Sandwich (in the case of Galaxy Nexus), you might have noticed that some apps installed from the Android Market automatically creating shortcut icon on the home screen. Of course, it is a convenient feature, but if you prefer to put only some specific app’s shortcut on the home screen, it would become annoyance.
Some apps installed on your Android phone set to update automatically whenever new updates are available for them. Of course, updates will bring new features; however, sometimes it turns out to be annoying, especially if it is a big file. If you want to get rid of these automatic update and wish for manual update, here is how to disable Automatic update of installed app on your Android phone.
Not all smartphones and tablets that run Google’s Android operating system support all apps and games available at the Android Market. Some apps may not work well on some devices. To help you, Google just implemented a new ‘device compatibility check’ feature to its web-based Android Market, which helps both consumers and developers alike.
Search and find an app or game for your Smartphone from the iTune Store or Android Market is a bit complicated job. To simplify the job, there is a new web service called 8apps, where you can find many free as well as commercial apps for iPhone and Android.
Because of its wide apps collections, it’s getting harder and harder to discover a new app from the Android Market. To helps you, here is a new app named Appsfire that not only lets you easily find apps but it also lets you manage your installed apps.