Google Removed 700,000 Apps From the Play Store in 2017
Cybersecurity and Google’s Play Store are no strangers. Over its almost decade-long existence, the Play Store has been plagued by bugs and malicious mobile app developers much more so than its rival, Apple’s App Store. Andrew Ahn, Product Manager of Googe Play, recently discussed how the tech titan’s increased cyber safeguarding measures led to the […]
Apple Acquires App Development Platform Buddybuild
Similar to the other tech titans, Apple is always acquiring startups and established companies to engineer extra features and products in-house. Sometimes, it’s much more cost-effective and efficient to buy an existing organization rather than hire them to do the work for you. Apple’s newest acquisition, Buddybuild, is a great asset to their app development team and […]
Google Is Now Offering $1,000 Mobile App Bug Bounties
Image Source: Mobile App Daily Are you an Android app developer looking for ways to make a little extra money? Well, we’ve got some good news for you. Google is starting a new initiative known as the Google Play Security Reward Program. This initiative will pay $1,000 for every flaw found and fixed that meets […]
Google Continues Its Seemingly Impossible Growth Streak
The sheer scale of Google’s operations continues to boggle the minds of Android app developers. Nobody thinks of the behemoth as just a search engine anymore — even the most tech illiterate among us know that the company’s vast operations extend into every facet of tech imaginable: mobile, research, life sciences, investment, and beyond. Google […]
Google Play and iOS App Stores Show Big Q1 Numbers
It’s a great time to be an app developer as product flies off the proverbial shelves. According to App Annie, the top analyst firm of the mobile app economy, app stores broke download and revenue records in the first quarter of 2017. There were 25 billion new app downloads this quarter alone, a truly epic […]
5 Tips for Writing an Outstanding App Store Description
Even the greatest, most ingenious apps on the market need to be promoted properly to reach a customer base. Yet, with thousands upon thousands of software products on sale in Apple’s App Store, the app’s description needs to be carefully crafted to attract the notice of the right shoppers. With that in mind, here are […]
Google Finally Purging Android of Crap Apps
Since February of this year more than 60,000 Android applications have been removed from the Google Play store. Mobile app developer news for Android apps.