If you're feeling a bit limited by the app library offered up by your Fire TV Stick, there are a few workarounds that can ...

Amazon is intensifying its efforts to combat piracy on Fire TV devices.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Sideload apps: Follow developer instructions to add to your phone. Not common. Risky: Jailbreak an iOS device and load apps to it. This article explains how to get apps that are not in the App Store ...

Google is requiring developers to verify their identity before their apps hit your phone. This kicks in September 2026, starting with Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore ...

Amazon's crackdown on which apps can be downloaded on your Fire TVs has now reached British shores, several months after the ...

Many e-readers released in recent years support app downloads or sideloading, but do not have Google Play or Google Play Services. It will soon become more challenging to do this with a new Google ...

I am so gutted that WinPhone died as it would be needed competition, also it was a better OS than both the alternatives. Apple and Google is a terrible duopoly tbh. Apple are a controlling walled ...