After detailing the “advanced flow” for sideloading earlier this month, Google is opening the Android developer verification process to developers today. Google today provided a more detailed timeline ...

Instead of ending sideloading entirely, Google is introducing a new way to share and install third-party apps. This includes a system‑level Android Developer Verifier app that debuted Monday. The app ...

Google has started the rollout of a new Android developer verification system designed to reduce malicious apps and improve platform security, with global enforcement planned in the coming years. The ...

Google has rolled out the third Android 17 beta to developers, about a month after the second. Notably, the first beta was released on February 13. With Beta 3, Android 17 has now reached platform ...

F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to ...

While most folks will download apps from verified sources like the Google Play Store, you can still find apps on the internet from alternate sources, which means that there's always the potential that ...

In September 2023, game developer and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya left PlatinumGames. Since Kaimya was one of the studio’s founding members and later its Vice-President, this announcement came as ...

At least once a week, I look at what I've written down on my computer for a story, put my head in my hands, sigh deeply, and say something like, "Actually, this is the worst thing anyone has written ...