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Google will lay down new policies to control spread of apps spamming users via the Google Play Store.

The changes should reduce app listings that tout apps as being the 'best' or 'top' and other scummy tactics users to push downloads.

Google's tired of crappy Play Store titles and screenshots, and it's finally doing something about them As a blogger focused on Android, I see a lot of spammy app names in the Play Store. Apps with extraneous descriptors trying to pop up in more searches, apps that include the name of other, more popular apps, or even (shudder) emoji in the names. Someone at Google is as tired of all that as I am, because there's a new set of guidelines for developers publishing apps in the Play Store. The upcoming change will go into effect "in the second half of 2021," and there are some fairly strict inst...

Android 12 Developer Preview 3 is Now Available! Another build closer to Android 12 beta. Google dropped the Android 12 Developer Preview 3 on us this morning to help developers further test the newest version of Android before it goes to beta. This is likely the last big preview build before beta too, so testing is going to be important at this stage. In this new Developer Preview 3, Google still isn’t ready to talk about any new features that you’ll get to play with and is instead still talking about the technical moves developers need to make to their apps. The big highlights here (so...

Android 12: Everything You Need To Know – Updated April 2021 Advertisement Android 12 is officially here, as a developer preview. Google released the first developer preview for Android 12 on February 18, 2021. It plans to release the final version in Q3. Which, if history is anything to go by, that should be around late-August or early-September. Since Android has matured as an operating system, we don’t see many huge updates for the platform as a whole. But Android 12 might be the biggest update in years. Since Google has only released the developer preview so far, we don’t know much...