Google Removing Poor-Quality Android Apps From Play Store to Boost Engagement

Google began removing apps from the Play Store on Aug. 31 as part of its strategy to enhance app quality, security, and user experience. Read More

The Google Play Store is working on another navigation bar tweak

Aligning with behavior seen on the Gmail Android app, the Play Store's nav bar too might soon play hide and seek ... Read More

Google Play Store Reportedly Developing Feature to Automatically Open Apps After Installation

The feature is said to be triggered via a new 'Automatically open after install' option that appears on the app page on Play Store. Read More

Hack your Amazon Fire tablet with Fire Toolbox (Install Google Play, disable Amazon apps, and more)

Amazon’s Fire tablets offer a lot ... to do things like install the Google Play Store, replace the default Fire OS home screen and launcher, side-load apps, disable pre-installed apps, or ... Read More

Google Says Opening Up Its App Store Is Expensive And Too Much Work, Gets Told By Judge, 'We're Going To Tear The Barriers Down'

Epic has proposed that Google should be forced to allow rival stores to exist within its own Google Play Store and give them access to every Google Play app ... “I would say Apple was ice ... Read More

Google Play Store now lets you update or install multiple apps at the same time

Google Play Store now allows users to download and update multiple apps simultaneously, significantly speeding up the app installation and update process. Read More

Play Store could soon handle updates for sideloaded apps (Update: Rolling out)

Google Play could soon let users install updates for sideloaded apps ... Store. We’ll need to wait until the change rolls out to users to know for sure. Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff ... Read More

US Judge Says 'Monopolist' Google Can't Avoid App Store Reforms

US Judge Says ... apps from third-party app stores, such as Epic’s, and from other internet sources. It also wants the court to forbid Google from automatically installing its Play store ... Read More

The Google Play Store can finally update multiple apps at the same time

Please verify your email address. The Google Play Store now allows concurrent app updates, making device maintenance easier. Users can now update 3 apps at once, improving efficiency on Android ... Read More

Google Play is not showing available system app updates [U]

Curiously, a system app with a new version will show up in Google Play’s “new updates” notification, but does not appear once you actually visit the page to initiate. You might also notice this ... Read More