It can be tough to know when a phone is on its deathbed or when an app is just being an overt battery hog. Google is going to help users get to the bottom of things, according to a recent Android Developers Blog. The company just announced the launch of a new metric for app…
What’s happened? Google has officially updated Play Store policy to let Android developers offer alternative billing options and link to external payment systems, according to its support documentation. This change follows court pressure, most notably from the Epic Games antitrust ruling, which forced Google to open up Android’s in-app payment ecosystem. Developers can now use…
Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock from the App Store, an app used to report on the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 404 Media reports that Google is also removing similar apps from the Play Store. In a statement to Engadget, Google said “ICEBlock was never available on Google Play, but we removed similar…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday denied Apple, Google and Meta Platforms’ requests to dismiss lawsuits claiming they promoted illegal gambling by hosting and accepting commissions from casino-style apps that addict users. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, rejected the companies’ main argument that Section 230 of the federal…
Google has confirmed pulling 77 malicious apps from the Play Store. But this is only part of a much larger cleanup. In the past year, Google deleted nearly four million apps, which works out to about 11,000 removals each day, as reported by Forbes. Google confirmed deleting 77 malware apps with 19M installs. In 2024…