The results no longer show a description of each app though, but some useful information, such as the user rating, number of downloads and the price still remain.

“While Google remains committed to industry-wide adoption of HTTPS, there isn’t always full compliance on third party ad networks and custom creative code served via our systems”, said Tristan Emrich, of Google’s Mobile Ads Developer Relations team. They are optimised for touchscreen use and are built to respond to most touch commands.

Voted the world’s #1 smartphone antivirus software by AV-Test, CM Security AppLock will keep your Android device free from viruses and associated malware nasties thanks to its multi-layered protection and in-app scan functionality. You’ll have to “sideload” it by downloading it from Amazon and by okaying the installation of apps that come from “unknown sources” and then installing it yourself.

It turns out that those overhauled app permission requests will definitely arrive on the Android 6.0’s consumer version. With a few swipes and taps, any web page can be tucked away in a sortable list to read later.

As per the study done by Google, around 500 million Indians will be accessing the internet on computers or laptops and around 490 million Indians will access the same via their smartphones by 2017.

However, while that may be true for users in the west, Google’s official Play store is blocked in China, and users there are far more used to downloading apps from unverified and potentially malicious sources.

Amazon announces new business model for Android appsAmazon is tackling app monetization with the new Amazon Underground app for Android phones.

As said above, the feature is available only on Android devices for now. To be clear, we’re the ones picking up those per-minute charges so for you it’s simply free. At $2.99, it might be well worth grabbing alongside morning coffee on the first day of classes. The new addition to its search engine, it will become easier for people to search for apps, if they are looking for them outside the Play Store. There are even calendars optimized for operation based on week numbers, moon phases and the stock exchange. Netflix pays content distributors per viewing.