Google Plans to Verify Android Developers - DTNSB 5085
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Framework’s new laptop lets users swap GPUs for the first time, and Gemini’s new image generation tool is bananas!
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| 0:51.3 | follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand. Ah, today, Google announced a big change to Android in an effort to make |
| 0:59.1 | side-loading safer. But does it? I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Barrett. Let's start with |
| 1:06.0 | what you need to know with the big story. I mean, I have no doubt it makes it somewhat safer. |
| 1:13.2 | So let's talk about it. |
| 1:14.2 | Google plans to require all developers, even those distributing apps outside of the Play Store, |
| 1:20.0 | to verify their identities. |
| 1:21.9 | Now, Google says its aim is to increase accountability, protect users from bad apps and malware with the move. |
| 1:29.9 | And you can see why that might be the case. |
| 1:32.0 | In order to comply, developers actually have to submit a lot of information. |
| 1:36.8 | They've got to give their legal name, their address, email, phone number, and that's all |
| 1:41.3 | done within the new Android developer console update. Larger organizations |
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