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Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free

Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software.

Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish an Android app to the Play Store. There is no developer account to buy and no fee.

The apps have to be built in Google AI Studio and are privately listed, Bloomberg reported, so they do not appear in the store’s search or recommendations.

The barrier it removes is small but real. Google charges $25 once for a developer account, Apple charges $99 a year, and both review new submissions before release.

Sam Bright, who runs Google Play and its developer ecosystem, demonstrated it with a tracker for his children’s local sports team, splitting jersey money, umpire fees and...

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