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  16. <title>The Android Market - Android Accessibility</title>
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  23. <h1>The Android Market</h1>
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  25. <div class="nav">
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  26. <div class="nav_back"><a href="services.html">Prev: Accessibility
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  27. Services</a></div>
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  28. <div class="nav_up"><a href="index.html">Up: Android Accessibility</a></div>
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  29. <div class="nav_next"><a href="customizing.html">Next: Customizing
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  30. Your Experience</a></div>
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  33. <p>The Android Market is a preinstalled app which gives you access to a
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  34. collection of more than 70,000 free and paid apps. On Android, software
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  35. installation is almost always done using the phone directly, rather than via a
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  36. computer. The Market is the easiest way to install apps, but there are other
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  37. options. See the bottom of this page for information on non-Market apps.</p>
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  38. <p>While there are of parts of the Android Market that are not yet
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  39. completely accessible, it is completely usable once you learn how it works.
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  42. <h2>Walkthrough</h2>
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  44. <p>To begin, open the app called Market via the application launcher.</p>
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  46. <h2>Initial access - terms of service</h2>
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  48. <p>The first time the Market opens, the initial screen is a terms of service
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  49. agreement that you must agree to. You will hear "Android Market Terms of
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  50. Service". The screen contains a long terms of service agreement that is in an
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  51. inaccessible web view. To agree to the terms, press Down until you reach the
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  52. bottom of the agreement, where you will find Accept and Reject buttons. Find
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  53. Accept and click.</p>
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  55. <div class="note">If you would like to read the Android market terms of
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  56. service so you know what you're agreeing to on your phone, you can find them
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  57. here: <a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-tos.html">Android
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  58. Market Terms of Service</a>.</div>
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  60. <h3>Finding apps</h3>
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  62. <p>When you open the Market, you'll be on a browse screen with one or more
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  63. categories across the top, like <strong>Games</strong>, and a vertical list of
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  64. apps below. You can navigate around this screen to find highly rated apps in the
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  65. provided categories.</p>
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  67. <p>To search for a particular app, select Search from the menu or press the
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  68. Search key on your phone. Type the name of an app or a keyword in the search
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  69. field. Be sure to type complete words, not just the first few letters of a word.
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  70. Press Enter to begin your search.</p>
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  71. <p>After your search, press Down to explore the results. Click a result to
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  72. learn additional details reagrding the app. Clicking from this screen will not
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  73. start the download.</p>
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  74. <p>If doing a search appears to take you to a blank page, that just means
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  75. there were no search results. Go back and try a different search term.</p>
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  76. <p>After clicking on a result, you'll be on the Details page for a
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  77. particular app. There are two tabs across the top of this screen, About and
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  78. Comments. The Comments tab lets you read what other users say about this
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  79. particular app. In the About tab, you'll find more information about the app,
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  80. and at the bottom, an Install button. Click the Install button to continue.</p>
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  82. <h3>Installing apps</h3>
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  83. <p>From the details page of an app, click the Install button as described
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  84. above.</p>
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  85. <div class="note">Important note: on some apps, you might not be able to
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  86. reach the Install button by pressing Down, due to a bug. There are two
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  87. workarounds:
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  89.   <li>Press the touch screen - the Install button is always at the bottom
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  90.   of the screen. It's in the bottom-center if you're installing an app for the
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  91.   first time, and at the bottom-left if you're installing an update. With
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  92.   practice you can easily press in the required location.</li>
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  93.   <li>When you first open the page, press Alt+Down. This skips past the
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  94.   part of the page where the cursor gets stuck.</li>
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  97. <p>Clicking the install button will take you to a confirmation screen. It
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  98. shows you what features of your phone this app will be able to access. Press the
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  99. OK button at the bottom of this screen to begin the download and automatic
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  100. install.</p>
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  101. <p>Apps you download are installed automatically in the background while you
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  102. continue to use your phone. When you hear TalkBack announce that it has returned
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  103. to the search results page, you know your app is downloading. You will get a
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  104. notification when the app is installed. After you hear the notification, you can
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  105. go to the Notifications screen (in the Home screen menu, or by swiping down from
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  106. the top of the screen) and click on the message that tells you the application
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  107. installed to open the app.</p>
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  109. <h3>Updating and uninstalling apps</h3>
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  110. <p>Select "Downloads" from the Market menu. This will take you to a list of
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  111. installed apps. Apps that have updates available will appear at the top of the
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  112. list.</p>
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  113. <p>Select an app. A button at the bottom right of the screen will allow you
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  114. to uninstall the app.</p>
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  115. <p>If the app has updates available, the button on the buttom left will
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  116. allow you to update. Otherwise, it will open the app.</p>
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  118. <h2>Paid apps</h2>
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  120. <p>The Market supports Google Checkout for paid apps. If you wish to
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  121. purchase apps with a credit card, you should first set up Google Checkout from
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  122. your desktop computer by visiting 
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  123. <a href="http://google.com/checkout">http://google.com/checkout</a>.
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  124. Alternatively, some mobile phone carriers will let you purchase apps and charge
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  125. them to your monthly phone bill. This service may not be available on all
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  126. carriers or in all regions.</p>
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  127. <p>The process for purchasing a paid app is almost exactly the same as a
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  128. free app. On the details screen, instead of Install, you'll see a link that says
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  129. Buy. Clicking Buy will take you to the Purchase Application page. There's a
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  130. control where you can select the payment method, and then a button at the bottom
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  131. that says <strong>Buy Now</strong> along with a confirmation of the final
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  132. purchase price.</p>
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  133. <p>Android Market apps can be returned for a full refund within 24 hours.
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  134. Uninstall the app as described above to get a refund.</p>
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  136. <h2>Installing apps from sources other than the Market</h2>
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  138. <p>The Android Market is a great way to find apps and quickly install them.
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  139. While the Market is open to just about anyone to publish any app, it is managed
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  140. by Google and does not allow malicious or dangerous apps. However, you are not
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  141. limited to using the Market to download apps and there are often good reasons to
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  142. install apps from a source other than the Market. For example, sometimes
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  143. developers post new or experimental versions of their software on their websites
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  144. before they release them on the Market. <strong>Spiel</strong>, one of the
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  145. accessibility services available for Android, is not currently available on the
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  146. Market.</p>
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  147. <p>To install a non-Market app, you will need to enable installing
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  148. non-Market apps in the Settings. Open Settings, select the Applications item,
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  149. and check the checkbox titled "Unknown sources".</p>
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  150. <p>After you enabling unknown sources, visit the URL of the app you wish to
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  151. download. If you know the exact url, you can type it into the search box on the
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  152. home screen or directly into the address bar of the Browser. Even though the
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  153. Browser is not accessible, you can use it to access direct URLs.</p>
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  154. <p>An Android app is a file ending in the extension APK. After your APK file
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  155. has finished downloading, you will get a notification. Click on the notification
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  156. and you'll be prompted to install the app, just like a Market app.</p>
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  157. <p>The Android Market will automatically notify you about Market apps that
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  158. need to be updated, but apps you install from a different source will need to be
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  159. updated to new versions manually.</p>
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  162. <div class="nav_back"><a href="services.html">Prev: Accessibility
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  163. Services</a></div>
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  164. <div class="nav_up"><a href="index.html">Up: Android Accessibility</a></div>
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  165. <div class="nav_next"><a href="customizing.html">Next: Customizing
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