After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon’s store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025.

Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be able to submit new apps to the store. The company said on a support page that it will also discontinue ...

Do not miss this deadline. You have been warned. Amazon has confirmed that “starting August 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your Android device.” That’s just 48 hours from now. The retail giant says it will now ...

Amazon will shut down its Android device app store in August 2025. Users will no longer be able to download or use apps from the Appstore on Android after the deadline. Amazon Fire devices like the Fire TV and the Fire Tablet. The Google Play Store is the ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication MobileSyrup. Prior to joining Android Police, Oberoi worked on ...

The Amazon Appstore allows you to download and install apps on Amazon Fire tablets and Fire TV devices. But the Appstore actually predates the Amazon Fire ecosystem. Amazon first launched the Appstore in March, 2011 as an app that could be installed on ...

Amazon will shutter its Appstore for the Android operating system, as well as its Coins program this week to funnel services through Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices. Advertisers targeting Android users will might need to shift app promotions and ...

Everything Flows: Amazon spent over a decade pursuing a foothold in the app store business. Now, the company has announced that it is shuttering its Android app store, with no guarantees that previously purchased apps will continue working. However, users ...

In collaboration with Microsoft, Amazon has announced the general availability of its AppStore on Windows 11 for all developers. This means more apps and games are coming to Windows 11 as Amazon developers can now easily access the AppStore for Windows and ...

The three new Alexa-branded tablets are priced below what Apple and Samsung charge for similar tablets, but are higher than Amazon’s existing, budget-friendly lineup of Fire tablets.