Third-party app stores are coming to Android on July 22.

Android apps have come a long way in recent years, and the difference is clear: smoother navigation, faster load times, and cleaner designs. Users used to put up with clunky interfaces and slow ...

Google Play will open catalog access to third-party US Android app stores on July 22, following a court order tied to Epic ...

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The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI ...

Google packed this year’s Android developer announcements with enough AI tooling, adaptive UI updates, and cross-device ambitions to make a laptop fan spin just from reading the changelog. During ...

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Google announced this week that it will add a new requirement for those who make Android apps and want them to work on Android devices that run Google services. The developers behind Android apps will ...

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A new system service to check if an app is registered to a verified developer will be rolled out this month. Google announced its Android ...

Free apps are the lifeblood of Android. Unfortunately, unruly advertising is ruining them — and Google isn't helping at all.