The Mate 30 Pro is one of the best Android phones of the year… at least on paper. The problem is that Huawei’s phone can’t run any of the Google apps you expect to find on Android devices: Google Play, Gmail, Search, Maps, and YouTube. The US ban forced Huawei to think outside the box …
Apps available for download in Google’s Play Store marketplace frequently expose kids to content that’s inappropriate and even trick some youngsters into unwittingly making in-app purchases. That’s according to a complaint that a collection of consumer and privacy advocates has filed today with the FTC. The complaint calls for the FTC to “investigate whether Google …
Google on Monday announced the best content it has to offer in the Google Play store across various sections, including apps, movies, TV shows, and books. Among the highlights of this year’s “best of” list, Google included PUBG Mobile, which fans voted the best game of 2018. That may seem like a surprising choice considering …
Google a few days ago unveiled its deals for this year’s Black Friday shopping event and then announced various Pixel 3 discounts that will be available to buyers in the next few days. But Google isn’t done revealing Black Friday sales, as the company just announced its digital deals for the Google Play store.
With the holidays coming up, everyone is looking for ways to save money, which is why some Android users were pleasantly surprised on Monday to find a few free dollars of Google Play store credit in their accounts. Android Police reports that it has received several messages from readers (as well as from colleagues working …
Google’s I/O keynote is almost upon us, the company’s major developer event of the year where Google will unveil some of its newest innovations when it comes to software. Android P, of course, will be one of the main highlights of the event, as Google is bound to introduce some of the most important features …
One of the biggest strengths of mobile games is the low barrier to entry. Anyone with a phone and a few megabytes to spare can download a game from the App Store or Google Play any time, especially now that most mobile games use a free-to-play model that gives players a chance to access a …
Google just released a security update on its Android blog in which it reveals how it fought bad apps this year, revealing it combined new machine learning models and techniques on top of actual humans monitoring app submissions. The company said it was able to remove some 700,000 fraudulent or malicious apps, both before and …
Following an investigation by security firm Check Point, Google has deleted 60 games from the Play Store that were infected with a malicious bug, which among other things injected pornographic ads into games targeted at children. According to Google Play’s public data, the games had been downloaded between 3 million and 7 million times. The …
After racking up millions of downloads and awarding thousands of dollars to iPhone users this year, HQ Trivia finally made the jump to Android on New Year’s Eve. The app has become something of a phenomenon in the months since it first launched on the App Store, and now the rest of the Android-owning population …
