Minecraft: Pocket Edition (MCPE or PE) was the former title of the mobile versions of Minecraft developed by Mojang AB. Pocket Edition introduced the Bedrock Engine, which was later ported to non-mobile platforms as four other editions of Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Gear VR Edition, Apple TV Edition, and Fire TV Edition.[18][19][20][21] When these editions received the Better Together Update, the "Edition" subtitle was removed, and the official name for all of these editions is Minecraft. To assist with clarification, the Minecraft community refers to these versions collectively as Bedrock Edition due to Bedrock being the name of the C++codebase from which they all derive.
Pocket Edition was initially launched exclusively for the Xperia PLAY on Google Play[9] for US $6.99 on August 16, 2011. It was later released for other Android devices on October 7, 2011,[22] and iOS on November 17, 2011[23]. On September 13, 2012, the Pocket Edition was made available for purchase on the Amazon Appstore. A demo/lite version of the game, which was essentially version 0.2.1 without world save functionality and had limited inventory items, was available until October 21, 2013. The Windows Phone 8.1version was released on the Microsoft Store on December 10, 2014.[24] The Windows Phone 8.1 version (which also ran on Windows 10 Mobile) was discontinued after the release of Alpha 0.16.2 on November 18, 2016, and was later replaced by a release for Windows 10 Mobile only (which was free to owners of the previous Windows Phone 8.1 version) on February 22, 2017 starting with 1.0.3.[25]After the release of 1.0.0., Pocket Edition for Fire OS was no longer available for Fire TV, but the new, more expensive Fire TV Edition was free to its previous owners.
