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# Android Market

![https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Icon/AndroidMarketIco2.png](https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Icon/AndroidMarketIco2.png)

Android Market is a discontinued online app store for installing Android programs. It was superceded by the Google Play store in 2012.

## History

![https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarket_Sample1.jpeg](https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarket_Sample1.jpeg)

![https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarket_Sample2.png](https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarket_Sample2.png)

Google Play (previously styled Google play) originated from three distinct products: Android Market, Google Music and Google eBookstore.

Android Market was announced by Google on August 28, 2008, and was made available to users on October 22. 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. The Google eBookstore was launched on December 6, 2010, debuting with three million ebooks, making it "the largest ebooks collection in the world". In November 2011, Google announced Google Music, a section of the Play Store offering music purchases. In March 2012, Google increased the maximum allowed size of an app by allowing developers to attach two expansion files to an app's basic download; each expansion file with a maximum size of 2 gigabytes, giving app developers a total of 4 gigabytes. Also in March 2012, Android Market was re-branded as Google Play.

## Website

![https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarketWebsite.png](https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/blob/main/Graphics/Android_Market/Market/AndroidMarketWebsite.png)

In 2011, a website for the Android market was created. It later became the Google Play Store

## Alternatives

Alternative App stores for Android include:

F-Droid

Samsung Store

[Suggest a new/better one](https://github.com/seanpm2001/Degoogle-your-life/issues/)

Alternative app stores for Linux include:

Steam

Snap store

Ubuntu software store

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## Sources

[Wikipedia - Google Play](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play/)

Other sources are needed, and this article needs LOTS of improvement and original work to prevent it from being partially copied from Wikipedia.

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