
The Play Store received a major redesign in late 2014, when Google started releasing Material Design UI for Android. The source of revenue for Play Store is the advertisements used in free apps, and the in-app purchases Google keeps 30% of the money generated through Play Store, while the rest goes to the developers.

The services that the Store offers since then are Google Play Music, Google Play Books, Google Play Newsstand, Google Play Movies and TV, and Google Play Games.Īs of December 2014, Google Play has over 1.4 billion apps and games, and over 50 billion downloads. For more information on linking a Nintendo Account to an Epic account, please visit Epic Games Support Site. Originally known as Android Market, on March 6, 2012, Google merged its Store with Google Music and renamed it as Google Play, or as it is known at times, Play Store. You can either link your Nintendo Account to your Epic account by visiting the Epic Games website on a PC or Smart Device, or after starting Fortnite on Nintendo Switch for the first time. Users can download apps on any Android device. Most of the free apps use advertisements. The apps available are both free and paid and are grouped under sections like “Top Grossing”, “Top Developers”, “Trending”, and “Editors’ Recommendations”.

Unlike Apple’s App Store, where users can only download apps and games, Google sells apps, games, music, magazines, books, movies, television programmes and even hardware like Chromebooks, Google Nexus-branded mobile devices, Chromecast and accessories. Google Play Store is a digital distribution platform that serves as the official app store for all devices that run on Android operating system.
