Amazon is ending Android support for its Appstore this year on August 20th. The retail giant announced the update on an FAQ support page with no explanation for the shutdown, but said its Appstore will still be available on Fire TV and Tablet devices, where it serves as the default app marketplace.

Apps downloaded from Amazon’s Appstore onto Android devices won’t necessarily disappear on August 20th, but the company says they “will not be guaranteed to operate” once they stop receiving updates. This comes as Microsoft is preparing to cease support for Amazon’s Appstore on Windows starting March 5th, as part of its Android subsystem being deprecated.

Amazon is also killing its Amazon Coins program — a virtual currency that can be purchased and used to buy apps and in-app items via the Amazon Appstore marketplace. New coins cannot be purchased after February 20th, 2025, but existing coin balances can still be used to make Appstore purchases. Amazon says that any coins remaining in user accounts after August 20th will be refunded, though more refund information will be shared “at a later date.”

Shutting down Android support is a curious decision given Amazon’s own Fire OS is Android-based, but Amazon’s Android Appstore is little more than a strange footnote in history. It once allowed users to “test drive” Android apps in web browsers, ran a program that provided free versions of apps, and came pre-loaded on Amazon’s failed Fire phone.

Amazon’s Appstore can also be sideloaded onto third-party Android devices and was initially growing that audience, but it’s been unable to compete with Google’s Android market dominance in recent years — a point notably raised in the Epic v. Google case to help argue that Google’s Play app store constituted an illegal monopoly. Amazon even tried to make it easier to sideload by hiding it within the Amazon app until Google closed the loophole that allowed it to do so.