Most Android devices default to the Google Play Store for downloading and installing apps, but it's far from the only place ...

A US court has ruled that Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome or Android as part of its antitrust case with the Department ...

Google will verify the identities ofalldevelopers for Android, even those operating outside of Google Play Store. The tech ...

But the Androidify app was removed from the Play Store in 2020, and hadn't been updated since 2016. Thankfully, it's now back ...

The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through other app ...

Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the ...

Google must open up the Android app store, Google Play, to competition for at least three years, a US judge ruled Monday. The ruling is the latest legal blow to the tech giant, which has already ...

Android apps side-loaded from the internet often come from shady sources. Google will soon identify them and block those of ...

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

With claims that sideloaded apps are 50 times more likely to contain malware, Google is tightening restrictions for ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that’s ...