Tongbu

Tongbu is another application store for Android to which we can resort as an alternative to Google Play and where we'll be able to find all sorts of apps.

Download apps to your android phone

Although there are hundreds of thousands of applications available for download from the Google Play Store, the official Android Market doesn't have everything. There are other marketplaces like Tongbu, a Chinese app store.

An interesting alternative app store

Here we can find all the content sorted into three categories: Collections, Games and Apps. We can access them to browse through their subcategories and download any type of APK. It is not necessary to register as a user, but we may do so in order to have tighter control over our activities in the store and to receive personalized recommendations.

It also comes with an application manager that offers us the following functions:

• Download manager: we can control the apps that we download.
• Update manager: from here we can indicate which apps we want to update and when.
• Uninstaller: We can use it to remove any application that is installed on our device, even if we have not downloaded it from Tongbu Tui.

As for the question of whether it's the best store to download applications... here we're going to find very interesting and peculiar things, but the more Chinese you know, the better. In any case, you can also resort to Malavida to download APKs. By the way, this shop also has its own version for the iPhone.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 2.3.
• Installing the app using the APK file requires enabling the "Unknown Sources" option in Settings > Applications.