As part of a settlement with Epic, Google is introducing support for “Registered App Stores” starting with Android 17. Certified third-party stores will utilize a “single store install screen” that ...

GitHub is a vast labyrinth of amazing open-source software projects, and it can be hard to see some of the awesomeness within ...

Apple's App Store has basically no competition, which is bad for consumers both in terms of innovation and pricing. On Android, the Epic Games Store offers a variety of games not found on Google Play ...

The Google Play Store has more than a million apps on it and billions of downloads each month, but it’s not the only place to get apps. There are many alternative Android app stores out there that you ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

How Google’s new Android sideloading and developer verification rules impact third-party stores, modding tools, retro ...

Everything Flows: Amazon spent over a decade pursuing a foothold in the app store business. Now, the company has announced that it is shuttering its Android app store, with no guarantees that ...