Android is adding new verification steps to sideloaded apps, introducing friction for advanced users while aiming to reduce ...

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Google says Android is getting a "high-friction" sideloading flow, but insists it's an accountability layer about risk ...

As Google says itself, “online scams and malware campaigns are becoming more aggressive. At the global scale of Android, this translates to real harm for people around the world.” Thus the change. But ...

Google is trying to keep Android users safer by making the sideloading app flow more difficult and convoluted, according to ...

Google announced changes to Android app sideloading last year that would require developer verification as a safety measure, ...

Ahead of Google's mandatory developer registration for sideloaded apps, the company's getting the Play Store ready.

New code in the Play Store reportedly highlights how Google might be guiding users about the risks of sideloading apps.

Android apps can apparently also be installed via sideloading without developer verification by Google. But the process may ...

One of the things that has long set Android apart from iOS is that Android makes it fairly easy to install apps from sources other than Google’s official app store, providing users and developers with ...

In brief: Google Play Protect serves as Android's first line of defense against malicious apps. However, the mobile anti-malware service can sometimes make sideloading cumbersome – or even outright ...