Google will stop supporting the Android Market app store on devices with Android OS version 2.1 and below from June 30.

Information has appeared in the Chinese press about Amazon’s plans to release the second device in the Kindle Fire line this summer. 

There are two newcomers in the American box office top of iPhone games at once: Temple Run: Brave and Zynga Slots. In the top of gaming applications for iPad, there were also some updates: a fresh game from Wizards of the Coast – Magic 2013 showed itself well. But as for Google Play, everything is the same here.

One of the most interesting presentations of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference from Flurry Analytics. Fresh figures and tips for developers on how best to use analytics to increase profits.

At the I/O conference, Google told what innovations are waiting for users in the new version of Android, codenamed Jelly Bean.

The Chinese publisher spoke about his own achievements in the field of distribution of mobile projects.

In the near future, the Google corporation platform may not only give way to the conditional palm of iOS, but also lose the mobile device market. 

Nielsen briefly described how much the mobile software market in the United States has changed over the past year, sharing a curious infographic. 

Google has announced that now the size of applications uploaded by developers to the Android Market can reach 4GB. At the same time, the size of the APK (Android Package) file of the program should still not exceed 50 MB.

Over the weekend, a clone of the popular Temple Run game appeared on the Android Market, which was downloaded 23 thousand times in a couple of days. In early February, Apple conducted a global “sweep”, removing dozens of applications that were outright clones of popular applications. Google will probably have to take action, too.

The Android platform has come close to iOS in terms of the number of users,” said one of the founders of the search giant. 

Distimo has presented the results of its new study of two mobile application markets: Google Android Market and Amazon Appstore.

As always on Mondays, we prepare a small information block on the most interesting events, research, and facts of recent days. In this release: apps in the Android Market are much more expensive than in the App Store and Windows Marketplace; paid flash support has appeared on iOS.

The independent Getjar market with a catalog of 480 thousand applications has launched its own viral currency for Android devices.

The number of downloads from the Android Market in Russia, the UK, Germany and Spain is more than from the Apple App Store. 

Some developers admitted that they used the services of bots. Among them are such companies as Fiksu, TinyCo and Storm8. Apparently, it’s time for Apple to change the ranking algorithm. 

Continuation of the material devoted to the promotion of games using search engine optimization, work on the description of applications, as well as the correct submission of games in the App Store and Android Market. 

Advertising, marketing, PR – that’s what it’s customary to talk about today when it comes to attracting a player, how to make sure that he downloads your application. Unfortunately, for some reason, the good old SEO has been increasingly forgotten lately.

When the new mobile OS from Microsoft is released, why Android is suitable only for serious boys, as well as who Disney released into the wild just the other day – you will find out by listening to the release of our new podcast.