Don't worry about getting too stuffed from Thanksgiving and its multi-course feast. Afterward, you can sit back and relax with some movies. You could do that at any time, but Google Play's offering a special deal on all movie rentals for this holiday in particular. On Thanksgiving Day, you can pick up any movie rental for just $1 each. Just remember that it's a 24-hour deal so you can'...
Google makes it incredibly easy to download and install apps. It takes only a few taps, assuming you know exactly what apps you’re looking for. Then you’re quickly onto a fresh experience that’ll add some productivity or entertainment to your life. Even if you’re just exploring, the Play Store has been organized in a straightforward layout. Don’t be surprised if you get lost diving...
Just before its I/O keynote, Google announced the winners for the 2018 Google Play Awards. The ceremony bestowed awards for nine apps and games that have achieved excellence across various categories. Rather than giving out awards based purely on downloads, Google takes things like ratings, updates, and impact into consideration. There’s even collaboration between multiple teams at the...
Android’s rise to dominance around the world shouldn’t be owed only to the companies that created phones and tablets for Google. Developers helped make it the world’s most popular mobile operating system. Since the company knows that, Google’s been hosting an awards ceremony recognizing the hard work developers put in to create quality apps and games for Android. This year, the Google...
Google's Instant Apps feature that started rolling out last year is receiving a major upgrade this week. Along with a new name, the feature now known as Google Play Instant is letting users try games as well as apps before actually installing them. The feature initially limited Android devices to apps but just welcomed games as the Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off in San...
Google has removed more than 300 apps from the Play Store after it was revealed that they were hijacking Android devices to perform secret distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Security researches who discovered the seemingly innocuous apps say that around 70,000 devices may have been infected. The apps claimed to provide a variety of seemingly legitimate services, such as...
Google will no longer stand by and ignore badly-made Android apps that perform poorly on even the most powerful smartphones and tablets. The company says it will be chasing developers who publish slow and unstable titles, while also reducing their visibility in the Play Store. One of the things that makes the Play Store unique compared to rivals like Apple's App Store is that...
The month of April saw the release of some big movies and TV shows for home release, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Walking Dead Season 6. The Force Awakens was released for purchase on April 5 while The Walking Dead Season 6 finale spiked sales of the AMC series. Both earned top spots for movies and TV shows on Google Play’s April chart. Other chart-toppers include The...
Love the Back to the Future movies? Me too, which is why this deal over in the Google Play Store caught my eye today. You can buy the entire trilogy for just $22, which is, I’d guess, what you would probably spend for a Blu-ray of just one of those movies… unless you’re digging through the dumpster of some torn down Blockbuster. You’ll get Back to the Future 1, Back to the Future II ...
Samsung has made its Gear Manager app available to third-party Android devices via the Google Play Store. The release makes it possible to use Samsung wearables with smartphones made by other manufacturers. Samsung’s new Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic watches are its first to support a long list of Android smartphones — not just its own Galaxy devices. But to use many of their features...