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Third-party app stores are coming to Android on July 22.

Google Play will open catalog access to third-party US Android app stores on July 22, following a court order tied to Epic ...

As part of the antitrust settlement between Google and Epic Games, third-party app developers will have access to the Google ...

Google will soon allow third-party Android app stores in the United States to access the Google Play app catalog. The company ...

I've been writing about Android since 2011, with a focus on device reviews, Samsung and Google Pixel hardware, and the latest happenings in the ecosystem. In my entire writing career, I've reviewed ...

Two major regulatory decisions in the U.S. and Europe are opening Android to rival app stores and AI assistants, though most ...

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 ...

Free apps are the lifeblood of Android. Unfortunately, unruly advertising is ruining them — and Google isn't helping at all.

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...

Starting next year, Android will block the installation of apps from unverified developers, a policy that affects both Play Store and sideloaded apps. The new system requires Android to check if a ...

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...