Posted yesteryear James Bender, Product Manager, Google Play In Dec final twelvemonth nosotros announced that nosotros would endure making updates to app security to assistance verify production authenticity from Google Play. We are straightaway adding a minor amount of safety metadata on give off of APKs to verify that the APK was distributed yesteryear Google Play.
One of the reasons we're doing this is to assistance developers accomplish a wider audience, especially inwards countries where peer-to-peer app sharing is mutual because of costly information plans as well as express connectivity.
In the future, for apps obtained through Play-approved distribution channels, we'll endure able to hit upward one's heed app authenticity spell a device is offline, add together those shared apps to a user's Play Library, as well as cope app updates when the device comes dorsum online. This volition give people to a greater extent than confidence when using Play-approved peer-to-peer sharing apps.
This likewise benefits y'all every bit a developer every bit it provides a Play-authorized offline distribution channel and, since the peer-to-peer shared app is added to your user's Play library, your app volition straightaway endure eligible for app updates from Play.
No activity is needed yesteryear developers or yesteryear those who purpose your app or game. We're adjusting Google Play's maximum APK size to direct maintain into trouble organisation human relationship the minor metadata addition, which is inserted into the APK Signing Block. In improver to improving the integrity of Google Play's mobile app ecosystem, this metadata volition likewise introduce novel distribution opportunities for developers as well as assistance to a greater extent than people operate on their apps upward to date.
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