Android market sans device

Question

I don't have an Android device. Is there any way to see the Google Android Market - on the emulator, on the Web, in a specialized client (a la iTunes)?

Answer 1

There are third party websites available which have reversed the market protocols and scraped data from them. Most prominently, there is http://www.appbrain.com/. Note that AppBrain does do "shovelware" filtering, so not all applications are visible.

There is a third party API which has figured out how to interact with the market and can query data for you: http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/