Open App Market9 is an app store for HTML5 mobile apps that allows us to search, purchase, install, or rate HTML5 mobile apps just like the native app stores (see Figure 10–18).
8 See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html.
9 See http://openappmkt.com/.
Figure 10–18. Open App Market
To get started with Open App Market we must first install it onto our device. Currently, Open App Market is available to iOS and Android users. To install Open App Market, scan the QR code in Figure 10–19 with your iOS or Android device.
Figure 10–19: QR code to install Open App Market. Alternatively, you can go to openappmkt.com and click the installation link at the top of their site.
After installing the app, you can search for Mobile Web apps by category or popularity. When you find a free or paid app you are interested in, download it and the app will be saved on your home screen just like an app from a native app store. For instance, Figure 10–20 shows the Open App Market app alongside the Twitter and YouTube apps that were downloaded from Open App Market.
Figure 10–20. Open App Market downloads apps in the same manner as native stores
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