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

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

On 25 August, the tech giant announced that all developers — whether publishing on the Play Store or via sideloading — will ...

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 is introducing new restrictions on Android app distribution, and it could spell the end for some popular third-party ...

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

More than 50 times more malware came through internet-sideloaded sources compared with Google Play.” That sober statistic, ...

Google will require developer identity verification for all Android apps, including sideloading. New non-Play Developer ...

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

Sideloading is about to get safer as Google begins verifying developer identities for apps distributed outside the Play Store ...

Google has officially launched the new Play Console app for Android after a brief beta period for many users.

Google will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identity if they want Android users ...