{"id":1218136,"date":"2025-02-20T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218136"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:20:47","slug":"amazon-is-shutting-down-its-third-party-android-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218136","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is shutting down its third-party Android app store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Amazon Appstore will no longer be <a data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/mas\/appstore\/android\/faq?tag=theverge02-20&amp;ascsubtag=__vg0220awD__616646__________________\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/mas\/appstore\/android\/faq?tag=theverge02-20&amp;ascsubtag=__vg0220awD__616646__________________\"><ins>available<\/ins><\/a> on Android as of August 20, 2025. After that date, apps from the digital storefront &#8220;are not guaranteed to operate&#8221; on Android hardware; however, they can continue to be used on devices like the Fire TV and Fire Tablets. The Coins program, Amazon&#8217;s virtual currency for some Appstore app and in-app purchases, will also end on that same date. Coins will no longer be available for purchase beginning today.<\/p>\n<p>The Appstore was Amazon&#8217;s effort to get in on the app distribution game for Android. Third-party app stores have been a hot topic for the business world in recent years, with the owners of walled gardens insisting that everything is fair while the companies trying to get a share of the action for themselves <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1892627057294651889\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1892627057294651889\"><ins>insist<\/ins><\/a> that it&#8217;s not. There have been <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/house-bill-ios-android-app-store-competition-open-app-markets-act-143026966.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/house-bill-ios-android-app-store-competition-open-app-markets-act-143026966.html\"><ins>mixed moves<\/ins><\/a> to address the question in the US government, while regions such as the EU have taken more <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/pple-details-how-third-party-app-stores-and-payments-will-work-in-europe-183931334.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/pple-details-how-third-party-app-stores-and-payments-will-work-in-europe-183931334.html\"><ins>decisive steps<\/ins><\/a> to increase competition.<\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/amazon-is-shutting-down-its-third-party-android-app-store-192047953.html?src=rss<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon Appstore will no longer be available on Android as of August 20, 2025. After that date, apps from the digital storefront &#8220;are not guaranteed to operate&#8221; on Android hardware; however, they can continue to be used on devices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}