Android Market gets 18 more countries

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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:03

Android developers the world over were cheering Googles news that there are now 18 more countries available to App buyers. There's been lots of grumbling behind the scenes as developers were becoming increasingly frustrated at the limited areas their Apps could target. This news will go a long way towards fixing this. In addition, users are starting to see the prices of the apps in their local currency directly in the Android Market App. To handle currency exchange variations a tilde symbol is shown before the price, representing "approximately" such as ~£3.87 for a British user when the base currency is in dollars. A "silent update", meaning users won't see a notification, of the Market app itself is being rolled out to all Android devices to handle the new changes.

If developers have selected "All Locations" as a geographical target when they uploaded their app they won't need to do anything to start selling in these additional countries.

The extra countries are: