A Google Play Store feature that automatically opens downloaded apps has been in the works since 2024. Users are finally ...

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

Google used to do very little curation of the Play Store (or Android Market, if you go back far enough), but it has long ...

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

Google is limiting certain Android devices' ability to side-load third-party apps, and it's all in the name of safety. But ...

Google will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identity if they want Android users ...

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

( NewsNation) — Google is taking a page out of Apple’s lead with its latest announcement to tighten security for its devices.

Google Play Store has a problem, and I want it fixed. And I'm confident I'm not the only one who wants to see this change.

Seventy-seven malicious Android apps containing different types of malware were found on Google Play after being downloaded ...

Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. ...

The Play Store will now allow users to “auto-open” new apps as they’re downloaded to their Android devices, as ...