Google Play Store Will Hide Outdated Apps In The Name Of Security

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Even though it has millions of applications in the library, the Google Play Store is not something that Android users will consider the shining examples of the cellular market. A large number of these applications are blatant clones of popular games, while some seem to only offer raw functionality to have applications uploaded to the store. There are, of course, there are also quite a number of applications or potentially dangerous phas that pass through the gaps of the AI Google power-powered security system. There are applications that offer a series of features that are decent and at all innocent, but it has been abandoned by their developers for any reason.

Google seems to see this obsolete application as a security nightmare waiting to happen, so it will immediately hide it from the view without actually releasing their listings. Fortunately, there is no reason to panic soon, especially if the developer takes action now before Google fully closes the door on this application.

Every new Android release increases what developers are contacted by the API level, the number correlates with the status of the Android platform for the release. New API levels naturally carry additional features and bug fixes, but they can also reduce previous features from time to time. Google recommends that developers target the minimum fire level that advances every release. Any application that was behind the recommendation was considered outdated.

Starting November 1, 2022, Google will enforce a policy that will prevent outdated applications found through searches and installed by new users who previously installed the product. This policy specifically defines applications that have been outdated as those targeting the fire level within two years of the latest Android release. When the policy it comes into force later this year, Android 13 will have been released, so only the application targets Android 10 or 11 to the top will meet these requirements. Every year, the numbers move forward, so that means the developer will be forced to update their application every year if they only target naked minimum requirements.