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Android Market listings will soon be able to display demo videos
It's hard to convey what some applications actually do through the use of static screenshots. Take apps like Dropbox, Fiabee, or Awesome Drop, for example. It's just not that easy to explain in two images how files get from your desktop to the cloud and then down to your phone. A video demo, however, could be a lot more useful -- and soon apps in the Android Market will be able to display them.
Right now, there are about 2,000 apps with newly-added videos in the Market but they aren't being displayed just yet. They're also available via the Market API, so some sites like Appsfire have already begun integrating the video demos into their own listings via the Market API. Check out AppsFire's Dropbox, Twidroyd, and Skyfire pages to see how helpful videos can be in illustrating an app's functionality.
Right now, there are about 2,000 apps with newly-added videos in the Market but they aren't being displayed just yet. They're also available via the Market API, so some sites like Appsfire have already begun integrating the video demos into their own listings via the Market API. Check out AppsFire's Dropbox, Twidroyd, and Skyfire pages to see how helpful videos can be in illustrating an app's functionality.
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Subscribe to commentsmotangDec 28th 2010 10:07AM
Good addition, I know Palm added this some time this year with WebOS 1.4.5.
Patrick D'appollonioDec 28th 2010 6:08PM
You're wrong. The Android Market itself doesn't contain any video showing anything. The app called AppsFire, an Android Market alternative is the software was added those videos.
I have seen some spanish blogs talking about Android Market was, publishing the source as you, I thought was a mistake of the spanish blogs, but the source also contains the wrong information.
Hope will be corrected, a lot of blogs are speaking without reading first.
TheGMDec 28th 2010 8:38PM
Unfortunetly you're wrong and spoke without reading first.
"Right now, there are about 2,000 apps with newly-added videos in the Market but they aren't being displayed just yet. They're also available via the Market API, so some sites like Appsfire have already begun integrating the video demos into their own listings via the Market API"