Something to look forward to: Mobile gaming may be a massive and lucrative market, but most PC players have an active dislike of playing titles on handsets. Despite this, Google is hoping to appeal to ...

What just happened? Google has announced a global rollout of new developer policies that upend its 30% Play Store fee and change how third-party app stores and billing systems operate. While ...

Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how third-party app stores and alternate billing systems will be handled by Android. Some ...

Google is moving forward with a series of Play Store changes after settling a years-long legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games over anticompetitive concerns. The tech giant on Wednesday said it ...

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 ...

Google is adding short-form videos to the Play Store. These bite-sized shorts are videos of the apps you’re scrolling through. They are meant to help with app discovery and to show how the app works.

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Google Play users in the US are now receiving official settlement emails tied to a major antitrust case against Google. The notice explain that eligible users who bought apps or made in-app purchases ...

When you get a new phone, it is a good idea to debloat it. This means removing pre-installed stock or sponsored apps you don't want or don't plan to use. Preloaded social media apps are a great ...

Consumers who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 may be eligible for a payout. Eligible users will receive a minimum of $2, with most receiving automatic ...

Google is shipping out a new System Services update, which affects general Android features that are powered by Google Play Services, as well as the Google Play app itself. This month, Google doesn’t ...