Google Play Store is testing a fixed app header with an easy to reach Install button, making it easy to install apps even with long listings.

The tech giant tries to stave off a judge's efforts to force it to open its Play app store to wider competition.

The “dangerous” permissions highlighted by that report include location tracking, access to cameras, contacts and the phone itself. Google’s enhanced protection doesn’t clamp down as widely as that, but focuses on financial exploits that require user credentials and one-time passcodes.

Google has requested a stay of the US injunction that opens the Play Store to third-party app stores, among other things.

Small developers may be winners after a judge's ruling in the long legal battle between Epic Games and Google. The tech giant must allow consumers more choices on its app store.

We’ve already seen a report from Statista, which showed that as of June 2024, the number of Play Store apps available was down a almost a million apps year-on-year, albeit at 1.7 million titles, there remains an expansive attack surface as the constant game of cat and mouse between bad actors and Google’s security team continues.

Google Play Store, a judge ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the lucrative Android app market.A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday handed a big victory to Epic Games Inc. in its long-running antitrust challenge to the technology giant’s app store,

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company’s internet empire.

U.S. District Judge James Donato issued the injunction after “Fortnite” maker Epic Games convinced a jury that Google illegally monopolized app distribution and in-app payments on Android devices. Google, a unit of Alphabet, contends that complying with the order would harm the company and has filed an appeal.

This would be particularly handy for installing an app after reading reviews and details, all without having to scroll back to the top of the listing. The Google Play Store is loaded with apps — as many as 3.

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