Android Market
The Android Market, or Android Central, is Google’s own repository for Android applications. The market offers tens of thousands of mobile apps for Android devices (devices that use the Android mobile operating system), many of which are free to download and use on your Android device.
See Android Codenames to learn about updates for the open source Android mobile operating system.
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