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

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

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 ...

Android will block users from sideloading apps made by unverified developers next year, but we may have found a workaround.

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

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

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 ...

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

In a significant blow to Google's mobile app business, a US federal judge has ordered the tech giant to make sweeping changes to its Android app store.

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 ...

Google’s app store practices violate US antitrust law and the search giant has illegally operated a monopoly in Android app distribution, a federal jury said Monday evening.