Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Brief
Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust
Upgrading Google Play’s AI-powered, multi-layered user protections we prevented over 1. 75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned more than 80,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish harmful apps.
These figures demonstrate how our proactive protections and push for a more accountable ecosystem are discouraging bad actors from publishing malicious apps, while our new tools help honest developers build compliant apps more easily.
Initiatives like developer verification, mandatory pre-review checks, and testing requirements have raised the bar for the Google Play ecosystem, significantly reducing the paths for bad actors to enter.
parental controls to data safety transparency and app badges.