Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to ...

Alternative app store F-Droid warns Google is misleading people when it says sideloading on Android isn't going anywhere.

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

F-Droid claims Google’s new developer rules will quietly restrict sideloading and weaken Android’s long-standing openness.

Google is addressing doubts regarding the mandatory developer verification for Android apps installed via sideloading, confirming the feature is not going away. The new requirement—which involves a ...

Google’s been working to modernize the Play Store’s interface, recently giving it a new gradient-shaded status bar. The app’s also working on a couple more Expressive updates, including a new loading ...