Angry Birds Added to Android After GetJar Crash

If your accompany with Android phones can't assume to put their accessory down this weekend, it's apparently because they've been fatigued into the Angry Birds phenomenon. The accepted bold hit the Android Market Friday afternoon afterwards appeal for a adaptation on the GetJar app abundance took down the companies' servers.

Users can now download Angry Birds for chargeless via an app that bold developer Rovio added to the Android Market today. See the slideshow beneath for awning shots of the bold in action on a Motorola Droid.

The move comes afterwards a chargeless adaptation of Angry Birds was appear Friday morning via absolute app abundance GetJar. Rovio and GetJar, however, couldn't handle the demand, and both of their sites crashed.

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Although Angry Birds wasn't slated to be appear in the Android Market on Friday, Rovio afresh added it to the Google-run app abundance aback humans were clumsy to get it via GetJar.

GetJar said via Twitter that it had 90,000 downloads "in seconds." When it crashed, it directed users to m.getjar.com to download the app anon from their Android phone. The aggregation after tweeted that GetJar was aback online, but "if 2 apathetic try Market."

Those who did administer to download Angry Birds on their Android phones, however, noticed that it did not abutment multitasking. Earlier this week, Rovio tweeted that it was dabbling the Android absolution of Angry Birds to "add able multitasking." But PCMag camera analyst PJ Jacobowitz downloaded the app on his Droid and begin that the affection was not enabled.

Multitasking allows you to abutting out of the app - to attending at a argument message, for archetype - and afresh acknowledgment to the bold area you larboard off. When closing out of the Android adaptation of Angry Birds, it shuts down the game. Opening the bold afresh re-loads the absolute app, with antecedent action erased. Rovio did not anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.

The 195-level ad-supported Angry Birds is chargeless in the Android Market. A exceptional adaptation is slated to be appear soon, sans advertisements.

The bold has already been crazily accepted on Apple's iPhone, and it's been downloaded added than six actor times. Priced at $0.99, it sat at the amount one atom in the App Abundance until recently. It's aswell accessible for Palm and Nokia phones, and a audience adaptation with just 15 levels is offered for Symbian phones.