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On The Bridle

On The Bridle

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I have caught up with the 21st Century and bought a pad. Dismayed to find no Oddschecker or bookies Apps available through Google Play. Am I looking in thewrong place?
 
Yes you ******* idiot. Let me introduce you to Google:

Step 1: Type Oddschecker into google
Step 2: Work it out from there you idiot
 
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Unfortunately Google no longer allow gambling apps of any description in Google Play. Here is what they have to say in their content policy "Gambling: We don’t allow content or services that facilitate online gambling, including but not limited to, online casinos, sports betting and lotteries."

As well as gambling apps, the following types of apps are also prohibited from appearing in Google Play - Sexually Explicit Material, Violence and Bullying, Hate Speech, Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior, Personal and Confidential Information, Intellectual Property, Illegal Activities and Malicious Products.
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The android apps for a lot of bookies will be on their websites and can be downloaded from there. However, most of them are just shells which point to the mobile version of the website, so why not just use the browser to access them? Oddschecker has a decent mobile site anyway, and if the tablet has a big screen you should have no problem accessing the full site.
 
So there's nothing stopping bookies having proper Android apps; they just can't distribute them through Google Play? Why don't they do that (or do they)?

Edit: Just checked; Powers have an Android app available at http://www.paddypowermobile.com/mobile_sports_betting - you've just got to download and install yourself.

Oddscheker don't, but then I'm absolutely amazed how poor Oddschecker's mobile offering is - surely its their ideal platform?
 
Betfair have two android apps as well, one for sportsbook and exchange.

These apps always rely on an internet connection anyway - I don't know why anyone just wouldn't use their browser to go to the website?

Corals mobile site has got really good recently - used to be very slow but they've obviously had it redesigned by someone that has a brain. Oddschecker mobile site seems fine to me as well?
 
Poker sites are also starting to develop more native apps - Pokerstars have been out for a couple of years and 888 have a browser based effort (which I've never used).
 
Or you could buy yourself a Windows tablet running full Windows 8.1 - then it's basically a normal windows computer and can run anything that works on Windows.
 
Flagship uberalles said:
These apps always rely on an internet connection anyway - I don't know why anyone just wouldn't use their browser to go to the website?
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Its fine as far as it goes, but proper native apps have plenty of advantages - e.g. they can completely define their own UI, have access to the full developer API, make full use of notifications and other cross-system services and generally run faster.
 
Indeed !
And they "fit" on the smartphone screen in their entirety too as against the normal website.
I use the android apps from Hills, Ladbrokes, Powers and Betfair. (All of which can be downloaded from the respective firms website homepage).
 
Gareth Flynn said:
Its fine as far as it goes, but proper native apps have plenty of advantages - e.g. they can completely define their own UI, have access to the full developer API, make full use of notifications and other cross-system services and generally run faster.
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Whilst I agree with the rest of it, the only reason a native app should noticeably run faster is because the web developer has ballsed up when creating it. A properly designed mobile website should run like lightning.
 

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