Google starts shaming apps that drain your battery

Google is officially rolling out warning alert boxes, that highlight Play Store apps guilty of excessive battery usage.

Google flags battery-draining apps with warning labels on Play Store

Google now shows Play Store warnings for Android apps that drain excessive battery through background activity and misuse of partial wake locks.
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Google starts calling out Android apps that drain your battery before you download them

Following its announcement last year, Google has started rolling out a warning in the Play Store that warns you ...

Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

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

Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store after a long wait for Android phones

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirms Fortnite will return to Google Play soon while Epic’s own mobile store continues supporting Android.

Google Play Store starts flagging battery-hogging apps

For reference, Google started rolling out 'wake lock technical quality treatments' to decrease app-related battery drain on March 1. The 'treatments' will rollout to apps that keep your phone's ...

Google blocked nearly two million Android apps and more than 80,000 developer accounts

That's less than previous years, but still a worryingly high number ...