Android will block users from sideloading apps made by unverified developers next year, but we may have found a workaround.

Google plans to begin requiring developer verification for all sideloading of APK app files on Android - here's what that ...

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

Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates Google will extend developer verification ...

Google will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identity if they want Android users ...

Short for Android Packages, APKs have long been Android's standard package format for apps and games. More analogous to Java's JAR archives (and is, in fact, an extension of it), APKs are designed ...

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