Android Market is down, showing zero apps (update: fixed)

Look, we know that checking the Android Market for updates its a nervous habit during brief periods of downtime for many of us -- but for now, you're going to have to go back to chewing your nails or tapping your fingers on the table, because the Market's down. Well, that's only partially true -- you can still get into the Market app on your phone without any errors, you just won't see any apps in there, which renders it pretty useless by our estimation. Hang on, don't panic -- we imagine this won't last long.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: It's still down for us on a Froyo Nexus One, but if you take a gander through our comments section, you'll see that a lot of folks are having no trouble at all -- so it's probably based on your location, your devices, and your operating system. As far as we can tell, it's not restricted to Froyo since we've received a number of tips on the issue and we're hearing of some Droids that can't see apps. Keep the observations coming, folks!

Update 2: Google just reached out to us to let us know that it should be fixed and that the total outage was somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 minutes. They're apologizing for the inconvenience -- but with the Droid X being announced today, can you really hold a grudge?

[a dumb cat Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:43PM]

Palm app catalog takes 2nd pla... wait, they're just down. Dammit...

[JonnyB Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:48PM]

@a dumb cat
Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KangXi Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:49PM]

@a dumb cat Luckily the Market isn't really down. Just checked. . .

[JonnyB Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:49PM]

@JonnyB
Wait......mine still works lol Running Android 2.1 on my Sprint HTC Hero, Big E what phone are you using?

[Techno1q Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:53PM]

@a dumb cat

Oh I'm not panicking, my 1.5 Android version doesn't do all that well with or without the Market, Hold your breath EVO and Desire owners, I feel for you.

[JonnyB Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:53PM]

@BHFoster
AHAHAHAHA! Too funny man

[jschaeff Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:55PM]

@a dumb cat works fine on my Nexus one.....

[Lord Vader Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:57PM]

@BHFoster. I was just granted a Copyright for the word "Noooooooooooooo". Expect a Galactic Lawsuit Letter in your mail tomorrow

[a dumb cat Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:57PM]

@BHFoster

I think I broke the button. Darth was all like, "Nooo" and then promptly crushed his own vocal chords with 'the force' or something. Weird.

[JonnyB Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:58PM]

@Lord Vader
Lol I cant stop pressing that button sir, your force is to great for my finger, it cant stop clicking!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[hammydbest Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:59PM]

@a dumb cat its all working here in the uk on a milestone (droid) on t-mobile... oh well still don't have froyo :(... need to root at some point....

[a dumb cat Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:00PM]

@Lord Vader

Yo, Darth. If you counted 14 "o"s in the URL instead of 15, you blew it. Galactic lawsuit fail.

[blindguymcsqueezy Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:01PM]

@a dumb cat
Mine works N1 FroYo frf72 build

[Lord Vader Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:04PM]

@a dumb cat. The Copyright covers all "Nooooooooo"s with more than 6 "o"s. Escaping Galactic Lawsuit Fail

[a dumb cat Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:08PM]

@Lord Vader

Disclosure loopholes fail. :P

[Jakejd Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:20PM]

@a dumb cat
@ Lord Vader

Overuse of the Word Fail FAIL

[Plazmic Flame Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:35PM]

I think the marketplace went down because someone tried to use FroYo-Final-Build. Network grids worldwide are next...

[ryan420 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 6:07PM]

@a dumb cat

Google needs to step up their game, no Android news but fails and waits for Froyo and source. Yet plenty of iCrap.

[ryan420 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 6:10PM]

@ryan420

Woah, looks like I missed the Froyo source article: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/android-2-2-froyo-source-code-available-today/

[Psyclotr0n Posted Jun 23rd 2010 6:24PM]

@Lord Vader
Note to Engadget -- please add an "Uber Highest Ranked" level

[Plazmic Flame Posted Jun 23rd 2010 7:16PM]

@Psyclotr0n

"Über Ranked" would be nice and only one comment in the entire article can obtain the rank.

[unf2011 Posted Jun 24th 2010 1:25AM]

@a dumb cat
Damn you beat me to it! I got so unexcited and thought I had a good joke but you posted it first!.

[FNG Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:44PM]

working fine on my Incredible.

[JonnyB Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:52PM]

@FNG
Can we down-rank this article to oblivion??

[flextopia Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:54PM]

@FNG Same here.

[Dinochicken Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:55PM]

@JonnyB

I'd support that feature, the ability to downrank certain articles would be very handy.

[Taylor Yes Taylor Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:57PM]

@FNG
Working fine on my Nexus One with froyo.

[mjkxxl Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:06PM]

@FNG

Yep just checked, working fine on my Incredible as well.

[Mr Blue Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:07PM]

@FNG

Verizon. Pennsylvania. Droid running a Froyo Rom. Market is working fine.

[dcoaster Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:07PM]

@FNG Works fine on EVO.

[Juggernaut408 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:44PM]

SWEET!!!!! Loving my EVO !!!

[lilo Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:45PM]

Oh my god! Android Market store is down. They might be bringing up new apps. Did anybody hear any rumors?

[maedox Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:46PM]

@lilo Yeah, I don't think they would take down Market just to update some apps.

It works fine in Norway by the way.

[ramifications Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:02PM]

@maedox

I'm pretty sure he was making a sarcastic comment about the Apple store.

Also, market is working perfectly on my Incredible here on Verizon.

[Kamil R Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:34PM]

@lilo
Thanks to this article, I just found out that there's an update to SkyFire Browser! YEAH! THANKS ENGADGET!

Also, No probs on my Droid

[matthewbostwick Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:45PM]

working fine on my EVO

[J D Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:50PM]

@matthewbostwick
working just fine on my EVO as well

[dalex7777 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:57PM]

@J D
Also working fine here.

[Slick Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:45PM]

Maybe they're updating the search options so you can look for specific publishers??

-Just a small wish of mine.

[Slick Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:57PM]

@Slick

Oh and on my Eris is works fine.

[ffarside Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:05PM]

@Slick you can do that already. just type "pub:publisher'sname"

[schmidt1985 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:45PM]

Working for me on the Evo. OOO how i love you evo

[Prevacator Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:46PM]

I'm guessing they're re-working the App store since they just released Froyo today which allows you to auto-update all of your installed apps, instead of having to go through them automatically and update them manually.

I would assume they're adding this feature to the app store.

[maedox Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:47PM]

@Prevacator Auto-update has worked since Froyo "pre-release" landed a month ago.

[a dumb cat Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:54PM]

@Prevacator

Yup, that would be a sad state of affairs for Android if this wasn't the case; glad you can auto-update all apps at once.

[MattsZ Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:46PM]

They all force closed upon themselves

[ofcmad Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:47PM]

Ummm. it was down all of about 5 minutes. This is not even a relevant news story.

[craine Posted Jun 23rd 2010 5:06PM]

@ofcmad It is still down for me on my Evo. Has been for about an hour now...

[Rick Astley Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:47PM]

Definitely down on my Droid.

[shishi Posted Jun 23rd 2010 4:58PM]

@Rick Astley

You should send ppl a video link on how to solve the problem *wink* *wink*