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Originally Posted by Filark
I thought I read in another post that a person with an Android phone could download apps from the Google Market to his/her phone, then sideload them to the eDGe. Is this only true for some of the apps some of the time? Is there a problem with formatting (phone vs. tablet)?
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Yes, it's true for some of the apps some of the time.
Many apps translate nicely, even with the difference in size between the phone and the edge but some do not. Some paid apps only allow the app to run on the device from which you've paid for the app. (At least, I've only heard of that being an issue on paid apps.) Apps that require the use of the camera have tended to not work on the edge, and apps that expect a built-in GPS don't work.
I've managed to find pretty much everything I need app-wise without Marketplace. Once, when I needed a very specific app, I did get someone with a phone to download the apk file and send it to me so I could manually load it onto the edge. (The app for one of my online photo album websites was impossible to find outside the official market.) But with the exception of cases where you need a very specific app, the other markets we do have access to seem to have most of the general tools you'd want.
There are threads here we started early on that both describe which apps we've seen do/don't work on the edge, plus a thread of .apk files.
http://www.entourageedge.com/forums/...d.php?522-APKs