Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores.

Google is changing how apps are installed on Android. A new policy could reshape sideloading, developer fees, and app store competition.

Google is officially doing away with its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions, and rolling out changes to how ...

Alternative app store Skich has become available on Android following its launch on iOS in the European Union earlier this year. The Android version of the store is currently onboarding developers, ...

F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to ...

iPhone and iPad users in the European Union now have access to another alternative app store with the official launch of Aptoide, a gaming marketplace. Aptoide has been around for quite some time as ...

By June 30th, Google writes, it will lower most app store fees in the US, UK, and European Economic Area to 20 percent or ...