The Google Play Console, Google’s main tool for helping developers manage their Android applications in its store from beta to retirement, is getting a major update at Google I/O today. In the last ...

In addition to its AI-powered Play Store updates, Google also introduced today several new security and privacy features for both app developers and Play Store users at its I/O developer conference.

To improve developer security on the Play Store, Google is requiring those that develop for Android to abide by 2-Step Verification and new identity requirements later this year. The first requirement ...

Although Google currently asks users for an email address and phone number, the company will now be asking users whether their account is a personal account or a business account, along with other ...

Google has changed the information requirements for people with Play Store developer accounts, in an effort to validate whether developers are real. While it currently only asks for email address and ...

Google Play is setting the stage for a big year of growth in mobile and cross-platform gaming, with several new initiatives to help and encourage developers to build even more exciting and engaging ...

Android developers are set to get a slew of new goodies from Google Play when it comes to app analytics and pre-launch tools. The update to Play services largely focuses on giving them insight into ...

Google wants to fight "spammy notifications" and ensure that developers don't use names or icons that are too similar to existing system apps. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist ...

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Google's Android Market is now Google Play, and developers with products in the Store may have a new problem on their hands. The Android Market had long been seen and revered as a free market for ...

Google is adding the ability for developers to respond to reviews and comments posted about their apps on the Play app store, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Developers can use the new ...

Next time you praise or bemoan an Android app on Google Play, you could end up getting a response directly from the company that made it. Google now allows developers to respond to user reviews on its ...