The Amazon Kindle Fire may look like a tablet designed only to access apps, music, movies, books, and periodicals from Amazon. But under the hood it’s an Android tablet, which means that it can run most apps designed for Android 2.3 and earlier. And it turns out it’s quite easy to install most of them. Most […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire hacked to run the Android Market
Update: We’ve posted instructions for rooting your tablet, installing third party apps, and installing the Android Market. The Amazon Kindle Fire comes with the Amazon Appstore which makes it easy to download and install about 20,000 Android apps. But the official Google Android Market has closer to half a million apps. So it’s no surprise that […]
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Google Music drops beta, now has 8 million songs for sale
Google Music is now out of beta, and available for anyone in the US to use without an invitation. Google has also announced that the basic service will remain free. That means you can upload as many as 20,000 songs to the Google Music website and stream them to any computer or mobile with a […]
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Custom ROM brings Android Market to the Arnova 10 G2
The Arnova 10 G2 is a budget Android tablet with a 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel multitouch display, a 1 GHz processor, and Google Android 2.3 operating system. But it’s not a Google certified device, which means that it doesn’t come with the Android Market, Gmail app, Google Maps, or some other Google apps. […]
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HP TouchPad Android fix for missing apps in the Android Market
Now that the CyanogenMod team has released the first public build of Google Android for the HP TouchPad tablet you might think the developers would be sitting back and relaxing. They’re not. They’re continuing to squash bugs and improve features. While the version of Android which was released yesterday allows you to install the Google […]
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CyanogenMod’s latest HP TouchPad Android video shows WiFi, Android Market
The CyanogenMod team has posted a new video showing the progress developers have been making in porting Google Android to run on the 9.7 inch tablet. We’ve already seen the benchmarks to show that Android performance is pretty good on the tablet, but now we can also see that CyanogenMod has come a long way […]
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18 places to download Android apps (that aren’t the Google Play Store)
Update: This article was originally published in 2011 at Mobiputing.com, and some of these websites and app stores are no longer around (or no longer very good). If you want to see a more recent list of recommended alternatives to the Play Store, check out our updated list of Play Store alternatives. https://liliputing.com/2017/08/get-android-apps-without-using-play-store.html The original […]
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Here’s what Google announced this week
Google unveiled the first laptops to run Chrome OS, a new subscription-based model for selling the Chromebooks this week. The company also launched Android 3.1 for tablets and made a number of updates to the Android Market. If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the news to come out of the Google I/O conference […]
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Google shows off Android 3.1 Honeycomb on Google TV
Google will launch Android 3.1 for the Google TV later this year, bringing the same operating system to the set-top box and tablet computers. The Android Market will also be available for Google TV, and the idea is that any app in the Android Market for Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablets will be able to run […]
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Google brings video rentals to the Android Market
Google has added video rentals to the Android Market, with thousands of titles available at launch. Video rentals run $1.99 and up, and you have 30 days to start watching once you rent a movie. You can stream videos directly from the Android Market web site, but Google is also launching video apps for Android […]