Google has decided it won’t pay for vulnerabilities discovered within Play Store apps and games. The search giant is essentially shuttering its bug bounty program. Google won’t pay for vulnerabilities ...

Since launching Google Play (née Android Market) in 2008, Google has never made a change to the US store that it didn’t want ...

Google is opening up the Play Store in the US, allowing users to download apps and make payments outside it starting October 29, 2025.

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 ...

The way payments work through Android apps from the Play Store is changing, and it’s all thanks to a court ruling. If you’re ...

Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Google’s app store and payments system have become illegal monopolies — and it’s ...

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the ...

Having the most up-to-date model of smartphone is something many mobile phone users strive for, but what really makes or breaks a mobile device's usefulness is its mobile apps. One of the most ...

Google is making support for its Themed Icons feature mandatory by automatically generating themed icons for apps that don’t already provide one. This change addresses inconsistent home screens, as ...

A ruling in India earlier this year was supposed to lead to the unthinkable reality where Google would distribute other Android app stores through the Google Play Store, but in a partial relief of ...