Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play is committed to providing a secure and safe platform for billions of Android users on their journey discovering and experiencing the apps they love and enjoy. To deliver against this commitment, we worked last year to improve our abuse detection […]
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Posted by Fei Ye, Software Engineer and Kazushi Nagayama, Ninja Spamologist Google Play ratings and reviews are extremely important in helping users decide which apps to install. Unfortunately, fake and misleading reviews can undermine users’ trust in those ratings. User trust is a top priority for us at Google Play, […]
Get the Rootless Pixel Launcher on your phone from Google Play Store now Rootless Pixel Launcher is now officially available for download under the name ‘Rootless Launcher’ from the Google Play Store for non-Pixel devices. Previously, the stock Pixel Launcher was only available on Google’s handsets. For those unaware, Rootless […]
Posted by Purnima Kochikar, Director, Google Play, Apps & Games On Monday we released Android 9 Pie. As we continue to push the Android platform forward, we’re always looking to provide new ways to distribute your apps efficiently, help people discover and engage with your work, and improve the overall […]
Release your app for the world to find and use This article assumes that you already have a Cordova project setup and can successfully generate an APK file. If that is not true, take a look here to learn more about using Cordova with the Quasar Framework. First, let’s clean up […]
Google Detects And Removes Tizi Android Spyware From Google Play Store Google has detected and blocked a fully-featured backdoor known as Tizi that installs spyware onto the Android devices, which has been used mainly to target users from African countries. The malware is used to steal sensitive data from their […]
Beware! WhatsApp Business app on Google Play Store is fake Watch out Android users who are looking to download the most popular messaging service, WhatsApp, as a fake version of the app was discovered on Google Play Store . The fake and malicious version of WhatsApp Business posing as “Update […]
Posted by Vineet Buch, Director of Product Management, Google Play Apps & Games Today we kicked off our annual global Playtime series with back-to-back events in Berlin and San Francisco. Over the next month, we’ll be hearing from many app and game developers in cities around the world. It has […]
Posted by Alan Ni, Associate Product Manager, Gboard Messaging is getting more and more expressive — today you can say I love you with an emoji, a gif, or a sticker. Millions of users share expressive content every day on Android devices using Gboard as their default keyboard. We want […]
You can earn $1000 in Bounty for finding software bugs in Android Apps Google has launched (and is expanding) a new program with the aim of removing vulnerabilities from third-party apps on its Google Play Store. Titled the Google Play Security Reward Program, it will reward researchers $1,000 for discovering problems […]