Amazon announced this week that it's shutting down its Android app store. The Amazon Appstore has been available on Android ...

Big changes are coming to the Android app ecosystem. Late last year, Google came up short in an antitrust case brought by Epic Games, and now the judge has decided on legal remedies. Not only will ...

Android 15 will extend the ‘app archiving’ feature to F-Droid. The popular app store is the first third-party platform to support the new capability. The Android Operating System (OS) has been ...

Third-party app stores may be coming to Google Play Store in 2025 to foster fair competition after the service was deemed an illegal monopoly in an antitrust ruling. When you purchase through links on ...

Google said it plans to appeal the ruling and ask the courts to pause implementing the remedies.

Android is, for the most part, an open platform. You can use the Google Play Store to install apps and games, or you can go off the reservation and install APKs on ...

But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install.

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Some of Android‘s most popular games have been tainted by a virus installed in fake versions of the games that lets hackers take control of victims’ phones and add them to a botnet, according to new ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon announced this week that it's shutting down its Android app store. The Amazon Appstore has been available on Android ...

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