[Beta] The first public release of the /r/Android App Store is available for testing!

If you haven't yet read the previous sticky thread, we recently sent out a call for help to create an app store to showcase Redditor-made Android apps.

Many of you replied pledging your support in various ways, and we greatly appreciate all of the help, but u/multimoon and u/mDarken took the initiative and quickly began working on getting a working build of an app store in place. Rather than fragment the work between different developers, we decided to go with the work started by these two.

After a couple of internal test builds shared with the mods (mostly in order to fix the wiki page itself, as it wasn't consistent enough to pull data into the app), we're now ready to release the first public version of the r/Android App Store!

Now I know that the "app store" name is a bit confusing, since we aren't actually hosting any of the apps here. This app is basically a much neater front for the app wiki that we maintain. All of the apps are actually hosted on the Play Store. The purpose of the r/Android App Store is to showcase and support apps made by Redditors.

You can download the latest public release here. Here's a direct link to the APK.

Edit: here are some screenshots http://imgur.com/a/SpnJv

The app is totally free (as in, no ads) and open-source. It's mostly functional at this point, but there are a few things the developers want to note:

• This is a preview and may contain a bug or two

• You are encouraged to contribute to the project if you know any amount of development: https://github.com/d4rken/reddit-android-appstore/

• Report bugs at: https://github.com/d4rken/reddit-android-appstore/issues

• Screenshots are planned to be included within each app's description. These will be pulled from the Play Store page for each app when you click on the app for more details.

• App icons are planned to be added. These will be pulled from the Play Store and will be stored in cache.

Otherwise, all feedback is welcome in the comments below.

Again, major thanks to u/multimoon and u/mDarken (both of whom themselves have apps listed in the Play Store, so check them out!)