The Play Store notification that usually pops up after an app has been updated has stopped appearing. As Android Police reports, users first noticed the missing notifications in early November. Then followed a period of back-and-forth when some users would receive the notifications, then they wouldn’t, then they came back, and so on, leading some […]
Google revealed the year’s most downloaded apps, movies, TV shows and books on the company’s Play Store, as well as users’ and editors’ favorite picks. Google Play users voted for their favorite downloads in each category. Call of Duty Mobile ranked as the top game, and GlitchCam which adds ’90s-style effects to your videos was […]
Trend Micro recently found 85 adware-laden Android apps on the Google Play Store. According to the company, majority of the apps that were discovered were found to be disguised as photography and gaming apps and were downloaded over 8 million times. All the 85 adware-laden apps were removed from the Play Store soon after Trend […]
Google and Apple’s app stores have historically taken a 30% cut on all transactions as a means to recuperate hosting and other services. Large developers have grown increasingly weary of this and turned to other distribution methods. Tinder is the latest example, with the dating service no longer using Google Play’s in-app payments system. As […]
Google announced to app and game developers this week at Google I/O that very soon, app ratings and how they are calculated are getting changed up. Google Play Store revealed this week that the newest, and theoretically more relevant app reviews will be given greater weight when considering ratings. The change is similar to one […]