Keeping up to date is a concern of many and can be extended to various areas. Fashion is an aspect that has fully immersed itself in the technology market, which unlike other markets, in this case fashion equals improved technologies and new features. We worry about the operating system that runs on our smartphone, and only when we manage to run the latest Android operating system will we be calm (something that does not last long, because the next system will come out immediately and suddenly we will see each other again waiting for the next ROM). Something like this also happens to us with our applications. Thanks to the Google Play system, most of them update themselves without us having to worry about it. But, what happens with those applications that do not exist in Google Play? Or those that are limited by geographic or carrier restrictions? Well today we have been talking about a solution for these cases, which are not few. This is Update Notifier Crowd Edition
Update Notifier Crowd Edition is an application that will help us to keep all our apps that are not referenced in Google Play up to date in order to carry out their automatic updates through the Google store. In those cases, until now, the way to get the latest version of the application was somewhat cumbersome and outdated: search for updates on Google, find the correct version, download the APK, transfer it to your mobile, install it ... A process that With so much technology on the market, it should be a thing of the past.
Update Notifier Crowd Edition works in a similar way to Google Play and that its predecessor, the application App Update Notifier, but it does not use third-party web crawlers or APIs. What the new Update Notifier Crowd Edition does is check your apps and compare it with the current versions, also unlike Google Play, our application checks all your installed applications, and not just those that belong to the google store. At that time, it sends the information to a database belonging to its community to do two things: check if there are new versions, and inform you about it. If this happens, you will receive a notification, and when you click on it, it will either redirect you to Google Play, or to AppBrain, in the event that your application does not exist in the first one or has restrictions. Best of all, all these operations are done completely anonymous, so that only the name of the package will be registered, so your device ID will not be registered anywhere.
The app has just been published, so the database today is very small (about 700 applications at the moment) and we will still have to give it a reasonable time for its development so that it provides us with all the potential that it may reach. to have. Thus, if you install Update Notifier Crowd Edition on your device, you will be collaborating with its development, and if you report errors or comments to the developers to help them improve its usefulness, even better.
There are other secondary "Markets" for Android
There are many alternatives to the previously called Android Market. Perhaps you have not heard much about this, and that is why we want to take advantage, since we have just released the Update Notifier Crowd Edition app, to comment on the best possibilities we have to enter the black market of Android smartphones.
Aptoide It is the most popular in this black market, and offers us the possibility of being able to download hundreds of applications for free (even those that are paid on Google Play). Summarizing, Aptoide is an alternative Market and unofficial. Version 4.0.0 released at the end of 2012, offered us the possibility of sharing the downloads on Facebook, Twitter as well as other types of improvements that were very useful for the application.
It is logical that to download this alternative Application Market we cannot do it through Google Play, so to do so we will have to download the APK file here. Remember that to install on your phone you must have the Unknown Sources option enabled in your Settings/Security. From that moment on you will be able to install and start downloading applications that were previously paid.
Another interesting option is one that has not yet arrived and that we are looking forward to: CyanogenMod App Store, which as its name suggests, has been created by one of the members of the development group of the well-known CyanogenMod. This utility will accommodate all those applications rejected by the official Google store, and knowing the potential that these developers have, it looks to be arriving to become the strongest alternative to Google Play.
In any case, while we wait for the CyanogenMod App Store, we have two very interesting alternatives: Update Notifier Crowd Edition y Aptoide. A luxury of applications for those who suffer the most from scratching their pockets compared to payment solutions.