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Android Market App for Android gets update

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Android Market app update
California, Jul 13: The Android maker Google has announced the release of an update for Android Market clients for Android smartphones.

The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products. For developers, the new Android Market client means more opportunities for your products to be merchandised and purchased.

The new User Interface for Android Market has a new promotional page that highlights top content. This page is tiled with colorful graphics that provide instant access to featured apps and games. The page also lets users find their favorite books and movies, which will help drive even more return visits to Market.

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Also, the new UI added app lists right to the Apps and Games home pages. Users can now quickly flip through these lists by swiping right or left, checking out what other people are downloading in the Top Paid, Top Free, Top Grossing, Top New Paid, Top New Free, and Trending lists.

According to Google, the new Android Marketplace app will arrive in the next coming weeks worldwide, and is now rolling out to phones running Android 2.2 or higher in United States.

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apoorvgoel11 12 Feb 2012 12:57 pm
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