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Amazon to shut down Android app store, discontinue Coins

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Amazon will shut down its Android app retailer on August 20. The corporate has notified builders that they are going to now not be capable of submit new apps to the shop.

“Beginning twentieth August 2025, you’ll now not have entry to the Amazon Appstore in your Android machine,” stated a notification on the corporate’s help web page.

“We may also be discontinuing the Amazon Coins programme on twentieth August 2025. As of twentieth February 2025, Amazon Cash are now not obtainable for buy,” it added.

Cash, Amazon’s digital foreign money, might be used to buy video games and apps on the app retailer.

The corporate additionally confirmed that any remaining cash in a buyer’s account after the shutdown shall be refunded. Amazon Appstore will proceed to be obtainable on Amazon gadgets, together with Fireplace TV and Fireplace Pill gadgets.


A report on expertise information website Techcrunch famous that few clients used the app retailer on non-Amazon gadgets.

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Explaining the choice, an Amazon spokesperson stated, “We’ve determined to discontinue the Amazon Appstore on Android to focus our efforts on the Appstore expertise on our personal gadgets, as that’s the place the overwhelming majority of our clients at present interact with it.”