{"id":654782,"date":"2013-04-26T19:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T23:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=467291"},"modified":"2013-04-26T19:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T23:15:37","slug":"android-developers-now-banned-from-bypassing-googles-play-store-app-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654782","title":{"rendered":"Android developers now banned from bypassing Google\u2019s Play Store app updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/26\/android-app-updates-google-play-467291\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/androidsmile-e1344431101780.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Android app updates\" title=\"Android app updates\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google on Friday changed one of its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google-play\">Play Store<\/a> policies to prevent apps from being updated outside of its marketplace. The company states that &#8220;an app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play&#8217;s update mechanism.&#8221; The change comes shortly after Facebook tweaked its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> application to allow users to update it without using the normal Google Play update system. It could be a coincidence, however it would appear that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> is worried that other developers might have followed suit and would therefore become less dependent on its Play Store.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/KZx4CTg5Cl8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Friday changed one of its Play Store policies to prevent apps from being updated outside of its marketplace. The company states that &#8220;an app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play&#8217;s update mechanism.&#8221; The change comes shortly after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}