Google will request developer verification for Android app outside the game store

Google is tighten the security measure around the distribution of android app, the company has bored on Monday. Accuse next year, Google would not to check the developers of distracting developers their apps on android, not only those who distribute via playing game. Changes affect all Certified Android Devices Once you live, although global roll will be more gradually.

The Tid Giants Stands I don’t match the developments can not distributed out of the game store for other stores or via sideloading – Android remains to that regard. However, developers you appreciate the anonymous of alternative distribution methods will no longer have this option. Google says this will help you cut the bad people who hide their identity to distribute the malware, commit the financial fraud, or to steal personal data.

According to his own survey, Google says that more than 50 times the malware came to the Internet-Sideladed fonts, where has the developer’s verification required by 2023.

Initially, Google will allow interest instructions to sign for anticipated access to start 2025 of October to test the system and provide feedback. In the 2026, verification will go live for all developers. By the 2026, any app installed on an Android device in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand by discovering new requirements. Starting in 2027, the requirements began to relax globally.

Developers should provide their legal name, address, the phone name, which may move independent developers to register as a business for their own private. Apple has implemented a similar change for the EU’s App Store before complying with the Act of digital services (DSA), a regulations of app revealers to provide their “Trader” status to undergo new apps or app updates for distribution.

Google notes that students developers can use a separate type of android development when this rotole system, as their commercial developers.

Changes could have a significant eagerly impacting of the google and google distribution app to climb in the safety and ill troubles which typically their platform.