Amazon announces shutdown of Android app store on August 20, ending 14-year competition with Google Play while maintaining service on Fire devices. Al is a long time tech writer with a penchant for ...

While the iOS app store has well over 800,000 active apps and Google Play sports more than 600,000, the Amazon app store has only about 75,000. That’s a very good thing — if you’re an app developer.

Amazon is set to close its official app store in China, marking another step back from the Chinese market for the US tech giant. The closure comes after Amazon’s announcement last year that it would ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

E-commerce giant Amazon has just announced that it is shutting down its app store for Android devices later this year. Amazon has sent a notice to developers that they will not be able to submit their ...

“Starting Aug. 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your Android device,” the company said on an FAQ page on its website. “We will also be discontinuing the Amazon Coins ...

Throughout the history of Fire Tablets, Amazon downplayed its use of Android. They ran Android apps from the company’s ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon announced this week that it's shutting down its Android app store. The Amazon Appstore has been available on Android ...

Amazon announces a leadership change in its Alexa division, with Aidan Marcuss succeeding Daniel Rausch as Vice President.

Windows 11 includes an optional feature that lets you run Android apps on Windows PCs. The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) first debuted as a preview in the fall of 2021, and became generally ...

Over the last month, Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S21 users have noticed the Amazon Appstore doesn't work with Android 12. And we say it doesn't work, we mean it's almost entirely broken. Most ...