
Users simply need to select the camera icon in the app’s search bar to scan an item’s barcode and find its price on Amazon.

As a result, we removed the app from Google Play and published the Amazon Shopping app. The Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android is a great choice for Prime members as it makes it easy to quickly compare the prices of in-store items with Amazon’s own prices. Google subsequently changed their Developer Distribution Agreement on September 25. “We launched a new Amazon App for Android Phones on September 9 that provides an award-winning mobile shopping experience, enables customers to discover and purchase all of Amazon’s digital catalog, and provides customers access to the Prime Instant Video player and unlimited streaming of over 40,000 movies and TV episodes. Here’s how an Amazon spokesperson explained the situation in a statement emailed to GeekWire: Instead, the Seattle company has launched a new Amazon Shopping app to the Google Play Store, which offers users access to the company’s shopping catalog, but not Amazon’s Appstore or Prime Instant Video. The app can still be found from its page in the Play store, but users who search for it won’t come up with results.

Amazon’s main Android app has been quietly but unceremoniously removed from the Google Play Store’s search after the Seattle-based company added support for downloading and installing apps from its Appstore.
