Google Play dropped its 2024 picks, celebrating the best in apps, games, books, and multi-device options. Partiful won Best App for reinventing event planning, with its easy-to-use "Party Genie" tool for quick invite creation. AFK Journey claimed Best Game ...

Live threat detection was one of the standouts when Android 15 was trailed earlier this year. Using on-device AI, the idea is that users will be warned in real time if an app is exhibiting potentially malicious behavior, before it’s flagged across the board by Play Protect.

Nearly four months later, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic in calling these goals a failure. The Play Store was, in the eyes of many, already racing towards a fundamentally poor place to find and download worthwhile apps and games,

Google can’t really have it both ways—either Play Protect is critical or it isn’t. It’s the default response from Google when new malware strikes, telling users to make sure it’s enabled. That protection falls away if it’s seen as the norm to disable it when an app can’t get through. How then does a user know what is dangerous and what isn’t.

Google Play Store may introduce a Smart Resume feature for interrupted downloads. Smart Resume would retain temporary files for 24 hours for resuming interrupted downloads. Users can pause and resume app downloads with Smart Resume if they have 5GB free space.

The Google Play Store could add a feature that allows you to pick whether you want a game to auto-install on any network or only Wi-Fi.

Partiful, the New York-based event-planning app that’s taking on older solutions like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events, has been named Google’s app of the year, the tech giant announced on Monday as part of its “best apps and games of 2024” list.

Google named Partiful the single best app of the year. This app is a tool for creating and managing events — everything from a surprise birthday party to a baby shower for your bestie. It makes it insanely easy to create events,