Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Google is discontinuing its Android Instant Apps feature in December 2025. The feature allowed users to try parts of an app without needing to perform a full installation from the Play Store. Low developer ...
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s updated Play Integrity API is making it significantly harder for users with rooted phones or custom ROMs to access certain applications due to enhanced security verifications. The update, now rolling out by default ...
Texas is preparing a new bill that could require Apple and Google to verify the age of users in their app stores. If the bill becomes law, it could make Texas the second-most populous state in the US to require ...
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has expanded protections against regional pricing abuse on the Play Store. Developers can now offer localized pricing and promotion without risking revenue losses from exploitative users. Previously, users would use a VPN to ...
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is expanding its “Ask someone to pay” feature for the Play Store. Users in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia will now have access to the feature. This option allows you to ask ...
TL;DR Google will allow app developers to easily halt the release of their apps on the Play Store. Developers currently have no easy way to stop the release of their apps in the event of a major bug or other ...
Google is making quite a few changes to Play at I/O this week. Google is focused on helping developers succeed. While the Play Store does house hundreds of thousands of apps from hundreds of thousands of developers, Google does play ...
Sign in to your Android Police account Summary Google requires apps for Android 15+ to support 16 KB memory pages for faster performance. New apps must follow the new memory standard by November 1, 2025. Developers using native code need ...
Sign in to your Android Police account Summary Pixel phones have a built-in scam sniffer, but Google is working on a new feature to detect bank scams during screen sharing. The new “BankScamCallDetectionService” aims to stop scammers pretending to be ...
Google Play Store has seen a massive decline in the number of apps it offers. That may not be a bad thing, though. At the start of 2024, Google Play hosted around 3.4 million apps worldwide. Today, that number is ...
