Google used to do very little curation of the Play Store (or Android Market, if you go back far enough), but it has long ...

More than 50 times more malware came through internet-sideloaded sources compared with Google Play.” That sober statistic, ...

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

Google is introducing an identity verification requirement for developers to register applications for installation on ...

Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.

The Google ID may have disappeared outside Ads Data Hub, but within Google’s walls the ID has taken on even more value. For instance, it can now be applied to Google-owned media like YouTube and ...