The era of app store exclusivity may be coming to an end. While the Google Play Store and Apple App Store are still the de ...

Google is introducing measures to combat malicious and fraudulent apps on the Play Store. These include improved pre-review checks for developers, enhancing the Play Integrity API to block harmful ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.’s Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone ...

In what could be a bug or behavior change, the Google Play Store is not showing available updates for system-level apps. Update 4/1/25: Here’s a list of common Google apps that don’t appear ...

Meta, X, and Snap are celebrating a new Utah law that will require Apple and Google to take responsibility for verifying users' ages on their app stores ...

Gov. Spencer Cox (R) has signed the App Store Accountability Act, a law that will put the onus on app store operators like Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and get parents’ consent for their ...

Did you know that the apps, games, and other content in the Google Play Store can vary by country? So if you move somewhere new, you may want to change your country in the Google Play store to see ...

Unlike iOS, Android allows users to download APK files from external sources. This has advantages and drawbacks, so this article explores the implications.