by dbadmin | Aug 19, 2024 | Android Security, Google, Google Play, Google Play Store, News
Google has announced that they are winding down the Google Play Security Reward Program. The program was introduced in late 2017 to incentivize security researchers to find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in popular Android apps. Google says they’re winding...
by dbadmin | Aug 5, 2024 | Google Play Store, News
Software previously available as single APKs can now only be found as app bundles. Bundles, while efficient to download, make distribution outside the Play Store much more difficult. When’s the last time you sideloaded an app on Android? The ability for users to...
by dbadmin | Aug 5, 2024 | AI, Google Play Store, News
The Google Play Store appears to be getting ready to include AI-generated review summaries in app listings. These would join the AI summaries in searches and the “App highlights” block we already have. Rather than just collating the most popular opinions expressed in...
by dbadmin | Aug 1, 2024 | Google, Google Play, Google Play Store, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Play could soon get a new feature to help fix Play Protect certification issues. The feature is currently in development, but we’ve managed to get an early look at it in the latest Google Play Store release. The...
by dbadmin | Jul 26, 2024 | Google Play, Google Play Store, News
The Google Play Store is starting to roll out a local recommendations feature. This feature uses your device’s approximate location to provide locally-relevant contextual information like promotions or app recommendations. The opt-in feature is starting to slowly roll...
by dbadmin | Jul 25, 2024 | Google Play, Google Play Store, News
The Google Play Store’s subscriptions page is getting a UI revamp later this year. Under the revamped subscriptions UI, you’ll see all your active and expired subscriptions, as well as checklists of benefits that you currently have access to or are no longer getting....