How To Get Apps On Android

How To Get Apps on Android

Okay, okay I know, you’ve just got your brand new Android phone and you cant wait to start using it right? I know that felling, because I’ve been there myself. Suddenly grown men and women turn into little kids when we get a new piece of technology. We have no idea how it works, we just know we cant live with out. Of course when you open the box you have the phone, as well as an instruction booklet in 5 different languages that looks like a serious amount of reading, and if your anything like me, you hate having to fool with instructions.

Well obviously its main use is a telephone, however I have a feeling you bought it because you heard about the over 10,000 application that can be put on this fantastic phone, to make it your own personal mobile computer. Well your going to want to know how to get apps on your Android phone right. Well you’ve come to the right place. Fist thing you need to do is go to the Android Marketplace. It contains all the applications every developed by everyone for the Android Phone. Its kind of nice to have everything stored in just one site isn’t it?

Are you there yet? Good, welcome to the Android marketplace. Now the first thing you will see is that the apps are separated by free, and ones that cost money. These are also separated by category, games, and application. These are further separated into major areas of interest. For the purposes of this article will pick an “application,” sub category “Finance.” Simply click on that. Here will find all the apps dealing with this subject. Each one is represented by a small picture with a name and how much it costs. Will click on one called “checkbook.”

Next thing you see is a full page description of the application, when it was created, is it up to date, how many have downloaded it, user reviews and comments, screen shots. Basically everything you’ll ever want to know to help you determine if this application is something that you might want to buy, and place on your Android phone. You will also see a list of similar apps on the left hand side. If you want to buy it, simply click on the button that says “buy” in the upper left hand corner. Oh, and make sure you are signed in, otherwise you wont be able to buy your new application.

After you buy it will instantly be sent to your new Android phone for you to start using. That’s it! With over 10,000 and growing, the Android application marketplace is a very popular place indeed. You’ll most likely want to take your time, a lot of apps are similar to each other, and some are expensive, so make sure you check out every app in the category your looking at, because you might just find out somebody else is giving it away for free!