The move closes the Accessibility API loophole. Google is poised to remove an entire category of apps—call recorders—from the Play Store. Reddit user "NLL-APPS" posted a thread on April 21 revealing ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Google has changed some developer policies that will kill call recording apps for good. The changes won’t affect the native call recording functionality that comes pre-installed on some phones.

Call recording apps allow users to record ongoing phone conversations, a feature that was once built into Android as an API. This allowed developers to add the function directly into their apps, but ...

Google is changing its Play Store policy to clamp down on a workaround that call recording apps were using, potentially closing the final loophole that allowed these apps to exist (via NLL-Apps on ...