Do not keep these apps. Republished on August 30 with new deletion update for Play Store apps. Google has now confirmed the deletion of 77 malicious apps from Play Store. But this is just the tip of ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Google is clearly on a mission to make Android ever more like iPhone when it comes to privacy and security. But one battlefield where Android continues to trail iPhone by some distance is app safety ...

Just days after announcing its fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, Google is set to change the Google Home app. As first noted by Android Police, this will revamp how users interact with their ...

Google has spent the last few years waging a losing battle against Epic Games, which accused the Android maker of illegally stifling competition in mobile apps. Losses in court left Google to make ...

Material 3 Expressive switched back to a shorter bottom bar, but not all apps — like Google Home — adopted that at launch.

As an open-source platform, Android has always been a Wild West of sorts regarding apps. Apple requires app makers to meet rigorous standards before apps can be published in the App Store; for Android ...

ChatGPT's App Store could cost Apple and Google $44 billion in revenue, placing OpenAI in place to disrupt the mobile marketplace in 2026.

Despite the big Material You redesign happening in 2022, the Google Home app did not adopt Dynamic Color, though that’s finally changing. Update 1/14: Dynamic Color in Google Home on Android starts ...