Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the ...

The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through other app ...

PyApp seems to be taking the Python world by storm, providing long-awaited click-and-run Python distribution. For developers ...

With claims that sideloaded apps are 50 times more likely to contain malware, Google is tightening restrictions for ...

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

Google has announced that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices in ...

Google used to do very little curation of the Play Store (or Android Market, if you go back far enough), but it has long ...

Google being able to ban developers operating outside the Play Store transforms Android into an iOS-like walled garden. When ...

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the ...

The traits that make an app feel like it's from Google Android apps that feel Google-made echo the visual language of Material You, even if they don't technically use Android's dynamic theming APIs.

Droid-ify is a third-party client built specifically for browsing and managing the F-Droid catalog, and it makes discovery ...

Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. ...