That's a lot of apps in the title...lol
Well, anyways, I'm a Game of War player, and found that the IAP through Amazon are cheaper and have the tendency to screw up letting you get free packs, lol. Only problem though, is I don't get game notifications from that version. Wondering if this was something to do with it coming from the Amazon store, a bad version of the game...or something else that I am missing.
Enabled all notifications in Amazon, checked app info for the game, notifications are enabled there. All in game preferences for notifications are turned on...not sure what I'm missing. Figured if there was anybody out there that would know a way, they would be here, lol
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Anyone post their apps to Amazon? I am thinking to post my paid apps to Amazon besides the official Market. It's quite annoying to remove linkage to android market in app's free version.
But it sounds that AT &T will block Amazon app.
I have posted my app, Smart Diagram, to it. And it is selling ok. 4 in a month. As a new store, i am quite impressed by Amazon effectiveness.
> Anyone post their apps to Amazon? I am thinking to post my paid apps to Amazon besides the official Market.
I'm liking it so far because the charts seem much more dynamic. My free word game "wordoid!" is hard to find in the Android Market's charts but has climbed to #2 in Amazon's charts for some reason.
> It's quite annoying to remove linkage to android market in app's free version.
Yes, this does make it tiresome when upgrading apps. You can automate the process though with build scripts.
That's a good idea to use build scripts to build the apk for both Google and Amazon. I wanted to post my apps on Amazon, but I was dreading rewriting some of the code and having to maintain to different copies. And the pro version of my app uses LVL which isn't compatible with Amazon.
How did anyone else handle LVL if you posted to Amazon. Just remove it completely and use the Amazon DRM? Ahhh...maybe I'll just stick to the Google app store.
I'd like to see some more feedback from people that have posted to Amazon though to get a better idea of how it compares.
Ed
I have uploaded several apps to amazon. But very few downloads are generated from it.
Has anyone else noticed that the Amazon AppStore seems to be cheaper than the Android (Google) Market? Apart from offering a free paid app every day, some apps seem to be less expensive. Another advantage that I noticed is that it's all in US$ and not converted from € or £; this is great because then I don't have to pay foreign transaction fees!
Only disadvantage is that you have to keep an eye on two different market places...
Shame it's not available in the UK - We can view but can't even get the free app of the day - says theservice is not available in your country...
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Shame it's not available in the UK - We can view but can't even get the free app of the day - says theservice is not available in your country...
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I know that the MarketEnabler app works for the standard android market (for root devices), but does it also work for Amazon's store? or does it pull country ID a different way?
On the Amazon AppStore, Amazon gets to adjust an app's price around. App developers are guaranteed a minimum amount of money (so when one of the apps are free for a day, Amazon is literally just paying the developer for each download!) for paid apps, but Amazon reserves more control.
Personally, I like the AppStore FAR more than the Android Market... I've never once had an issue with stuff from the AppStore totally ignoring you when you tell it to install/update something (unlike what the Market does for me somewhere from 50-90% of the time).
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I know that the MarketEnabler app works for the standard android market (for root devices), but does it also works on Amazon's store? or does it pull country ID a different way?
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My Transformer is not rooted - I don't intend to root it... not for some time - it's new so I'm "bedding it in" - see if any problems popup..
Just a shame that a company as large as amazon has not expanded the Android market into all regions yet.. and yet Kindle it appears has taken over the world. LOL
My problem with Amazon:
1. Can't turn off one-click purchase. I have purchased apps accidentally.
2. The only way to "diasble" one-click is to de-authorize the device on Amazon's website
3. Once you de-authorize a device or if you uninstall the Amazon App Store app, you can no longer use the app.
Basically, if you buy an app and then decide down the road that you don't like the amazon appstore (for whatever reason). You pretty much can't uninstall it unless you don't want access to the apps you purchased anymore. I don't think the andorid marketplace functions this way.
I am unsure if the apps even function if you don't have a wireless connection. Maybe someone can clarify this.
Also, if there is a way around this, I'd like to hear it.
As is stands now, I have about 6 paid Amazon apps and have now decided that I don't want to use the amazon appstore due to their no-refunds/can't-turn-off-one-click policy(s). So what do I do now? I am forced to leave the amazon appstore app on my device.
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My problem with Amazon:
1. Can't turn off one-click purchase. I have purchased apps accidentally.
2. The only way to "diasble" one-click is to de-authorize the device on Amazon's website
3. Once you de-authorize a device or if you uninstall the Amazon App Store app, you can no longer use the app.
Basically, if you buy an app and then decide down the road that you don't like the amazon appstore (for whatever reason). You pretty much can't uninstall it unless you don't want access to the apps you purchased anymore. I don't think the andorid marketplace functions this way.
I am unsure if the apps even function if you don't have a wireless connection. Maybe someone can clarify this.
Also, if there is a way around this, I'd like to hear it.
As is stands now, I have about 6 paid Amazon apps and have now decided that I don't want to use the amazon appstore due to their no-refunds/can't-turn-off-one-click policy(s). So what do I do now? I am forced to leave the amazon appstore app on my device.
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I understand what you are saying but it is exactly the same with Google Market; it's just not that obvious! Your device is linked to your google account and your market account is basically identical with (or part of) your google account. So if you decide you don't want to go with google anymore (which is impossible btw) you would lose all your apps as well. Does that make sense?
Ignore me, I obviously didn't read the first post.....
Hmmm. I was just shocked to see that some apps are also more expensive at amazon... Guess at the end of the day it will be very similar after all.
Curious To see if anyone else had this issue or can recreate it.
I doubt it is intentional, but it is seemingly a good way to punish anyone who uninstalls the Amazon app store.
I am using a Motorola Photon 4G and I installed the Amazon appstore a few months back, mainly because of their free app per day. Anyway, in that few months I've downloaded quite a few apps from the Amazon appstore.
Tonight I was deciding to do some cleanup and started uninstalling apps left and right. And while I was at it, I decided to uninstall the amazon appstore app since I haven't really used it for a little while.
The first thing that initially surprised me, then I sort of accepted, was that when I went to use an email app I got from amazon, even though it was available in the Google android market as well, it showed me the inbox but forced a popped up that was telling me that I have to have the amazon app store installed before I could use the app. Like I said, at first it did surprise me, and in fact pissed me off, but I sort of made at least temporary peace with it by realizing that Google gets the advantage of having the required "market app" installed to possibly track what apps you use (in exchange for the free of charge market service, of course), So why shouldn't they get the same benefit?
But the second thing I noticed has pretty much pissed me off. Besides that I couldn't use any apps that I downloaded from the amazon app store (or at least that email app I downloaded from them) but I couldn't use my "paid for" apps either. But that still isn't the biggest issue.
The issue I want to know if it can be re- created is that once I uninstalled the amazon app store, my phone screen was now very unresponsive, scrolling, typing, etc. was all very laggy or didn't respond at all until I would touch 2 or 3 times. It was so bad that when my pattern lock came on, it would lag so much I couldn't get back into my phone for at least 10 or 12 tries. Even trying to pull down the notification bar was nearly impossible as the connection would be lost every half second between my finger in the screen thus making the notification bar recede back up.
I didn't immediately recognize it was the removal of the amazon app store application that caused this, so for several hours I was trying to troubleshoot what processes or applications was causing this. Finally, in order to use one of my paid applications, I reluctantly reinstalled the amazon app store application.
And all of that lag and unresponsiveness disappeared entirely immediately upon installation of the amazon app store application.
Now, I doubt that it is intentional, but at the same time I don't put it past Amazon given something else uber-unethical they willfully did a while ago that is unrelated.
Nonetheless, even if it is not intentional, it is a huge deal if the removal of the amazon app store is the direct cause of this happening to many people, not just me. So, I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience, or would like to try to recreate it and report back ( again, simply reinstalling the amazon application store fixed the problem).
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Joe
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Don't know but I can't even login to Amazon Appstore with my username and password.
Keeps saying it's wrong but it's right. Checked many times.
Weird.
I wonder how Amazon plans to make money on Amazon Underground. I read somewhere it may be by inserting ads into our apps in the future. If then, something like that maybe impact user experience. Do you think so?
And more permissions required for apps for Amazon Underground than those apps for Amazon Appstore or Play Store. So I think, the amazon underground maybe is not fit to those clean utility apps, which need not any permissions at all. Is it right?
After installing V25 I noticed that Amazon Shopper Panel app doesn't allow me to see my rewards (desktop). I even signed out of the app on my Android phone, still doesn't allow me to see my rewards. I guess I can always use the app on my phone but I'd like to make it work on my tablet too. Thanks for helping.
I still have not seen any suggestion on how to resolve this one. Anybody else has this issue? I think the Amazon Shopper Panel app needs to be added along the other Amazon apps so we don't uninstall it. It's not showing in the list of Amazon apps. It's not a well known app I guess.