Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Administration, Android App Security
Final yr, we launched Android developer verification to strengthen ecosystem safety and cease malicious actors from hiding behind anonymity to launch dangerous apps. Tens of millions of apps have been registered because the verification launched in March, protecting practically all installs on Google Play and a big majority of installs from exterior of Google Play. We respect the suggestions and partnership from {industry} leaders, builders, and Android communities that helped us design this expertise and drive robust adoption.
Preliminary launch throughout seven shops and 4 nations
These new developer verification protections will take impact on September 30, 2026, beginning with customers in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand.
This rollout is an industry-wide effort to create a safer ecosystem. We’ll start by verifying app installations from the next shops:
- Google (Google Play)
- Honor (HONOR App Market)
- OPlus (OPPO App Market)
- Samsung (Galaxy Retailer)
- Transsion (Palm Retailer)
- vivo (V-Appstore)
- Xiaomi (GetApps)
Following this preliminary section with our companions, we’ll develop these protections globally for all apps on licensed Android units in 2027.
Automate your workflow with new APIs
To additional streamline app registration, we’re launching a collection of developer-requested APIs that can assist you register apps in bulk or instantly by way of your steady integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. The Android Developer ID Standing API will allow you to examine if a package deal title has already been registered, and the Android Developer Console API will allow you to register and handle package deal names instantly inside your improvement surroundings. Each APIs additionally help OAuth delegation, permitting third-party platforms, like Android app shops, to carry out these operations natively in your behalf.
We’ll launch these APIs over the subsequent few months.
What’s subsequent
- June 2026: Beginning this month, we’re rolling out a brand new system service that can be mechanically put in on most Android units. This service can be used later this yr to confirm developer registration.
- July 2026: We’ll launch the Android Developer ID Standing API globally and start early entry for the Android Developer Console API. Early entry additionally begins for restricted distribution accounts on Android Developer Console. This new kind of Android developer account is designed for college kids, hobbyists, and learners and allows you to share your apps to as much as 20 units with out a government-issued ID or a charge.
- August 2026: Restricted distribution accounts and the brand new Android Developer Console API will launch globally. We’ll additionally launch an superior movement for putting in apps from unverified builders, which incorporates safety checkpoints to withstand coercion scams, whereas permitting energy customers to take care of the flexibility to sideload apps from unverified builders.
- September 30, 2026: App registration turns into required for taking part shops in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Unregistered apps might be sideloaded with Android Debug Bridge (adb) or superior movement.
- 2027 and past: After incorporating the suggestions from our companions, customers, and developer neighborhood, we’ll develop the Android verification requirement globally.
Get began with Android developer verification
In the event you distribute apps in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, or Thailand by way of the shops listed above, please guarantee your verification is full by the September deadline.
- Google Play builders: Most Play builders are already verified, and over 99% of their apps have been registered. Go to your Play Console House web page to see your app’s verification standing, and register apps you wish to proceed distributing that weren’t mechanically registered.
- Builders who distribute solely exterior of Google Play: Join the Android Developer Console at this time to register your apps.
- College students and hobbyists: Join right here for early entry to restricted distribution accounts to assist us refine the function together with your suggestions.
Thanks for serving to us construct a safer Android ecosystem. Keep tuned for extra updates as we method September and the 2027 international rollout.
