Google will let Android users donate directly to nonprofits through the Play Store

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according to Google is launching a new feature for Android phones this day out of its Play Store app marketplace that going to let anyone donate to a number of America nonprofits, by 100 percent of the donation going to the chosen organization. Google is waiving its traditional 30 percent fee for apps and in-app purchases as part of the program, that the company is calling Giving Season on Play. (Most donations are tax-deductible in the US, yet having to account for 30 percent of a donation out of the Play Store complicates that process.) Google going to let nonprofits keep 100 percent of all donations, forgoing its 30 percent cut"In celebration of the holiday giving season, we're making an update to the Google Play Store which lets you make charitable donations to inspiring nonprofits," writes Maxim Mai, Google Play's business developer manager. Apple alextremely did the same out of iTunes and the App Store earlier this year for the California wildfires and for Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Google Play Listed Fake Android Apps With Over 50,000 Installations, Quick Heal Claims

Google Play - Google's Android app and content store - is no stranger to malware, fake apps, and money grabbing schemes. The laanalisis report claims that the app store had listed multi fake apps that didn't actually provide their listed offerings. investigators at global IT safety firm Quick Heal Technologies have discovered in the Google Play store certain fake apps by over 50,000 installations that conned people to download and average other sponsored apps. "Users ought be careful When downloading such fake applications. User can easily recognise it by going out of review," Paaverage said, adding that Quick Heal had announced these applications to Google.

Google is ending Play Service support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

as informed in Pour one out for Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich: Google announced this day that it's dropping backing for Ice Cream Sandwich for future Play Service API releases, meaning updates for apps on the older version of Android going to likely be few and far between, via 9to5Google. Google is instead having developers aim API level 16 (for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean) as the minimum level of support. And while, in theory, developers can continue to maintain and update a version of their apps specifically for Ice Cream Sandwich users that backing API level 14 or 15, it's unlikely that many going to do so. Only 0.03 percent of Android users are continue running Ice Cream SandwichIt's not the most surphight news: according to Google's developer dashboard, as of October 26th, only 0.03 percent of Android users were continue running Ice Cream Sandwich. Given the poor overall state of Android software updates, chances are if you're continue using a phone by Ice Cream Sandwich, you're probably not getting an update to Jelly Bean anytime soon.