Amazon App Store
Tools- Category Tools
- Size11.04 MB
- RequirementsAndroid 4.4 and up
- Downloads 80,000,000+
- Package Name amazon-app-store
- Content Rating Everyone
Amazon Appstore is the app store available on all Amazon Fire devices, including the Kindle Fire and the Fire Stick. The Amazon App Store is not limited to just Fire devices, but most Android devices. It was opened on March 22, 2011 and was made available in nearly 200 countries.
Only a few of the most popular apps available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store are also available on the Amazon Appstore. For example, the Facebook company offers Facebook, Facebook Lite, Instagram, Messenger and Messenger Kids in all stores. However, the company does not offer IGTV separately from Instagram on the Amazon Appstore, nor does it offer WhatsApp, Messenger Lite, Boomerang or Layout.
Features
The Amazon Appstore included the "Free App of the Day" feature. Every day, an application, frequently a game, was offered for free. On the launch day, this game was Angry Birds Rio (Ad-Free), in itself a promotional game. On The European launch day, the free app was Angry Birds (Ad-Free). The Free App of the Day feature made an exception to Amazon's payments, instead giving the developer none of the list price during the featured day.
The store's "Test Drive" feature allowed users to try an application in their web browser by launching a virtual copy of Android in the Amazon EC2 cloud for half an hour. The Test Drive service was decommissioned in 2015, Amazon saying that the service had been in decline, partly due to many apps not supporting the feature, and the increasing prevalence of the “free-to-play” business model making it obsolete.
