CyanogenMod’s black market Android app store is on the way

The CyanogenMod team is famous for its tweaked Android ROMs, and handset tinkerers will be glad to hear that developer Koushik Dutta is planning to build a CyanogenMod Android app store stocked with all the apps and ROMS that have been banished from the official Android Market.

Banned apps include retro console emulators, tethering apps and visual voicemail solutions and the new app store hopes provide a one-stop shop for all of these digital delights and more.

The CyanogenMod store should also reduce the number of people purchasing root-only apps from the Android Market, only to discover that they don’t have a rooted device in the first place.

Although there’s no release date as of yet, we expect things to move rather quickly and with purpose – this is the same team who brought HP TouchPad owners a serving of Ice Cream Sandwich, after all.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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