{"id":20222,"date":"2011-05-12T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-13T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:43:36","slug":"android-paid-applications-available-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/20222-android-paid-applications-available-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Android paid applications available in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

South African Android users have reason to celebrate today with paid applications becoming available locally in Google’s official Market for Android devices.<\/p>\n

It was revealed in March 2011 that the paid Android Market was expected in the second quarter of 2011<\/a> and it was announced at Google IO yesterday that 99 additional countries would be receiving buyer support<\/a>, of which South Africa would be one.<\/p>\n

Before the evening was out South Africa’s Android community had discovered that the ability to buy applications from the Android Market had already been enabled for users on local networks.<\/p>\n

Google’s announcement comes hot on the heels of Microsoft unveiling their intent to support a handful of countries<\/a> for app creation and app commerce.<\/p>\n

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In addition to offering a host of countries access to the paid Android Market, Google also announced some new features for the service<\/a>. These are:<\/p>\n

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  1. New top app charts<\/li>\n
  2. Editor’s choice section<\/li>\n
  3. Top developers get a special icon<\/li>\n
  4. Better related apps section<\/li>\n
  5. Trending apps chart<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Users that aren’t seeing paid applications in their Market yet should try clearing its settings and cache by finding Market in Settings > Applications > Manage Applications<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Android paid applications available in SA<\/a> <\/strong><< Comments and views<\/p>\n

    Thanks to\u00a0Karl Fischer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Johan Els<\/a>\u00a0for the tip and to\u00a0ZADroid<\/a>\u00a0for the tutotial on clearing the Market application’s cache.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    South Africans can finally buy and download paid-for applications from the Android Market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}