Amazon Android Appstore Now Live – Angry Birds Rio Is The First Free App

[Jer]

Someone suggested unmounting the SD card but when I do that I get an error saying that Rio requires you have an SD card to install. When I re-mount the SD card I continue to get the same error I was getting before that it can't be installed.

Grr...

[MNTNBKR]

Only used it for a minute so far, but it seems to be pretty nice. I'm a big fan of Amazon already though.

One MAJOR inconvenience though is that apps installed from the Android Market don't show up as "installed" in the Amazon store, and vise-versa. In other words, Amazon will allow you to purchase an app that you've already purchased through the Market. When you try to install though, it detects the duplicate and asks if you want to remove the existing installation and replace with the Amazon version. I think this will need to be sorted out in order to prevent people from accidentally paying for the same app multiple times.

I'm also curious to find out if Amazon has put any type of security in place to stop multiple people who share the same Amazon Prime membership (like my wife and I) from installing an app that has only been purchased once onto multiple devices

Since you have to put your phone number into the 1-click thing, I think that'd solve the security. Might suck that your wife needs to set up a separate amazon account though, not really that terrible.

I wonder since the free angry birds rio just downloaded and made me install via package manager...can't I just grab the apk and give it to anyone I want. Doesn't feel very secure in that respect. I haven't tested this, and probably won't, just curious how they'll go about stopping this.

I finally got around to messing with the app store a bit more. I tested whether or not Amazon set up security to prevent more than one device from downloading an app that has been purchased only once, and apparently they have not. The "help" section on the Amazon app store even tells you how to register additional devices:

To add a device to your account, please download the Amazon Appstore app for Android to that device, and sign in to your account from it. That device will automatically be added to Your Devices. You can also go to www.amazon.com/Appstoreonmobile from your mobile browser to download the Amazon Appstore app for Android.

As a test I purchased Wolfram Alpha on MY phone (been wanting if for a long time anyway) after also logging into the app store with my wifes phone under the same account. Immediately, the Wolfram Alpha app was available on both device for installation and installed successfully on both devices.

This brought about another question though. After installing Wolfram Alpha on my wifes phone I wanted to uninstall it but was unable to figure out how to do so. The app store help section had nothing about un-installing apps purchased through the app store... only about uninstalling the app store itself. I'm still working on this one, as my wife has no use for Wolfram Alpha and I don't want to clutter up her phone for her.

Also, I accidentally "purchased" the WSOP app (even though it was free) twice, and now it shows up twice in my "my apps" section. I can't figure out how to remove the duplicate yet, but admittedly, I haven't tried very hard yet either.

[MNTNBKR]

OK, apparently uninstalling an app fromthe app store is just like uninstalling an app from the market in that you can go settings>applications>manage application and then uninstall the app. However, the Wolfram Alpha app doesn't show up in my "all apps" list for some reason (on my phone or on my wifes).

[ejcrossl]

No problem downloading/installing the Amazon App Store but put me on the list of people having the installation error trying to install Angry Birds Rio while it's free. I get to the final screen after it downloads and I click install and it says 'Application not installed' but there's nothing I can do about it from here. Sprint Evo 4G in stock form.

Same here, Droid X stock!

[calemr]

Install problem with the Angry Birds Rio "Application Not Installed" Error?? Thunderbolt. Stock.

[Jer]

I finally fixed my problem and here's a little more detailed description of how I did so.

Mount your phone to a PC and browse to the 'android_secure' folder and open that folder. Delete (or copy to your PC just in case) all of the contents of this folder and then back out, unmount and if you want reboot. After that you should be good to go. I imagine one could delete the entire folder but if you're unrooted the phone won't let you so this was the way I did it on my phone. I would assume if you're rooted you can delete this folder and it would rebuild it along w/whatever files it needed after you deleted them.

Good luck!

[smartphone]

I have heard, that the Amazon store has 3800 apps. This seems to be a quite small number, there are more than 100.000 iphone apps around and in the Internet, using a file search engine you can easily find several thousands free Android apps for download.

[gsu_golfer]

Now if there was some way of getting a daily notification of the free app, that would be awesome.

[Steveo031986]

I think it's great so far. At least in concept. But like 'joker' said, you better compare apps to the market before you buy. I noticed a few paid apps on Amazon that are free in the market. Also, I did notice that a couple apps in Amazon were cheaper. Although I can't give an example.

But I had no problem getting right in and downloading Angry Birds Rio. It's the best Angry Birds yet. I don't know why so many people are having trouble with it though.

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I don't know about other people, but I don't want to waste my time or battery switching between two app stores just to compare apps. I like the idea of having one store. This is going to open up the door for tons of different ones.

[memnv]

yesterday's free ap was Shazam Encore,today's is swiftkey keyboard. Angry Birds Rio is still free