From now on Google has decided to make a significant change to the authentication of Android apps loaded onto its Play Store. The internet juggernaut has decided to add security metadata feature to all Android APKs to ensure that the apps are authentic and have come from the valid source.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) will be the actual technical word to represent the procedure and is intended to improve the security of the Android platform by making it harder for fraudulent apps or those with malicious codes get installed on the platform.
Therefore, the change gives an added confidence to Android users downloading applications from the play store as it allows blocking apps which are being circulated with nefarious intent.
By inserting android metadata into the app, verification that the app is from legitimate source can be done and authentication from the developer that the app is approved to be used can also be obtained.
The new DRM will also ring the revenue bells for the developers. As it will allow users to download the apps without any hesitation and more downloads means more exposure and more income via sales or ad revenue.
From the past couple of years, there has been ‘n’ number of reports in the media that malicious apps are taking asylum in the Google Play Store putting Android users to risk.
Google wanted to keep a check on this issue and so has introduced the DRM feature onto its Play Store in order to keep nasty apps at bay.
