Hank Green’s Focus Friend is Google Play’s app of the year

In a year that again saw AI assistants and tools climb the app store charts over and over, it's interesting to see a timer ...
9to5google

Google Play adopting new app quality thresholds for top charts and recommendations

Google is introducing a new “app quality bar” for the Play Store to give more prominence to higher-quality titles. The Google Play Store will steer users away from low-quality apps and games by ...
Android

Google Testing Charts Feature In Explore Tab For YouTube Music

Google is testing another Google Play Music feature, i.e. Charts feature in Explore Tab for the YouTube Music app. Notably, this feature replaces the useless ‘Hotlist’ tab on YouTube Music. Well, for ...
TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: AI apps, Bing hits the Top Charts, Google and Mozilla test non-WebKit browsers

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as ...
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The Google Play Store adds icons to show chart position changes

New chart position icons have now joined the Google Play Store, making it easier than ever to track the rise and fall of specific applications within category leaderboards. The option was spotted by ...