Android WARNING: These Google Play Store apps are FAKE - have YOU downloaded them?

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as mentioned in Android users are being warned after nefarious, fake apps were found on the Google Play Store. And its userbase are no strangers to being put on alert about fake Android apps, by a number of high profile cases. And now Android users are once again being put on alert about a menace emanating from the Google Play Store. In a post online, Quick Heal said: "Quick Heal Security Lab has spotted few FakeApps by more than 50,000+ installations on Google Play Store. Android users are being warned about fake apps on the Google Play StoreThe fake Android apps were downloaded tens of thousands of times

Google details upcoming 64-bit requirement for Android apps on the Play Store

In late 2017, Google began alerting Android app developers about a 64-bit backing demandant for the Play Store. Android has supported 64-bit CPUs ever 5.0 Lollipop, and the Play Store in 2017 announced that apps using native code must provide a 64-bit version in light of future chips that only backing 64-bit code. In August 2019, the Play Console going to require that all new apps and updates that include native code provide 64-bit versions. This demandant means that apps by 32-bit native code going to need to have an additional 64-bit version as well. There are multi exceptions, by APKs or app bundles explicitly targeting Wear OS or Android television excluded due to devices not yet backing 64-bit code.