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Google will help developers make the Play Store more secure

In recent years, Google's Android development team has implemented improvements that make the Google Play Sto...

Floris Hulshoff Pol March 27, 2025

In 2024, Google took several measures to improve the security of the Android and Google Play ecosystem. These...

Mels Dees February 3, 2025

Martijn van Best October 8, 2024

Google will soon allow users to update Android apps downloaded via sideloading or from alternative app stores...

Floris Hulshoff Pol July 31, 2024

Google again conducted a major cleanup of its Google Play app store over the past year. In addition to stoppi...

Floris Hulshoff Pol April 30, 2024

Google outlines the changes it is making to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Due to the changes, business...

Laura Herijgers March 5, 2024

Game maker Epic Games recently won a legal dispute with Google that has been dragging on since 2020. In a rec...

Floris Hulshoff Pol December 12, 2023

Android developers are getting new functionality in the Google Play store to better showcase and price their ...

Floris Hulshoff Pol November 17, 2023

ESET reports that an Android app was secretly spying on its users. iRecorder - Screen Recorder introduced mal...

Kimanthi Sammy May 30, 2023

The tech giant says it cancelled thousands of developer accounts and blocked over a million apps from reachin...

Joseph Brunoli April 28, 2023