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Want To Update Your Android App Outside Of Google Play? Well, You Can't
By Zach Walton
Google Play is one of the best Android app distribution platforms around. It also has incredible reach what with it being installed on every Android device. Developers would be stupid not to be on Google Play, but some would prefer not to deliver app updates via Google's service. Well, they can't anymore.
Google recently updated its content policy for developers, and there's an interesting new policy that's aimed squarely at those developers who would seek to circumvent Google Play when delivering app updates:
An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism.
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