Obtaining Android apps outside of the Google Play Store can be a mixed bag. While Android offers the flexibility to install most apps, you must be cautious about where you get these files.

Malicious apps are pretty common, and it's easy to accidentally download them if you're not cautious. You'll often find these apps on third-party app stores, shady websites, or through suspicious ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The Google Play Store now lets you download and install multiple app updates at once. Up to three app updates can be simultaneously downloaded and installed from the Play Store. The Google Play Store ...

The Google Play Store is rolling out support for simultaneous downloads of apps. We have it working on a Galaxy S23 Ultra and reports of it working on many other devices. Unfortunately, you can’t ...

Google and Apple’s app stores both have a reputation for being pretty trustworthy these days. It’s easy to assume that if an app is in either the iPhone App Store or the Google Play Store, it’s safe ...

You’d think an app listed on the Play Store would be safe to download. That’s what Google wants you to believe, and it’s true to a large extent. But in this ...

Google has finally introduced a long-awaited feature to the Play Store: the ability to download and update multiple Android apps simultaneously. This significant improvement will save users ...

Google is building higher fences around its Play Store, as the fast and loose world of sideloading comes under increasing pressure. If Android is to narrow the security gap to iPhone, then this is a ...

Not all apps are created equal. For every incredible, must-have app on the Play Store, there are dozens of low-effort, ad-ridden, useless options as well. There's a lot you can do yourself to try to ...