Third-party app stores are coming to the Google Play Store in the US. What does this mean for you? Quite a lot, actually.

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UPDATE (February 19, 2026): The Google Play Store has seen several changes since we last updated this article. You can read more about them at the very end of the article. Summary: In this article, ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

Ahead of the wider release, Google is already testing a new option to enable third-party app stores on the Google ...