The Google Play Store is rolling out an auto-open feature for newly downloaded apps. It will open an app five seconds after the installation is complete.

Do not grant permissions to an app that it should not need: torches and star-gazing apps don’t need access to your contacts and phone. And never grant accessibility permissions that facilitate device control unless you have a need. Once a month, scan through your phone and delete a few of the apps you no longer need or haven’t used in a long time.

The “Fortnite” maker claims the tech giants colluded to place onerous restrictions on app stores created after Google lost an antitrust case.

Video game maker Epic Games sued Google and Samsung on Monday, accusing the tech companies of coordinating to block third-party competition in application distribution on Samsung devices.

Epic Games Inc. expanded its antitrust legal fight with Alphabet Inc.’s Google by accusing the tech giant of conspiring with Samsung Electronics Co. to block rival app marketplaces.

Google has quietly rolled out a new update for the Play Store app. The new update allows the Google Play Store to auto-open newly installed or downloaded applications. Notably, Google has been testing this functionality since June this year.

(Reuters) - "Fortnite" video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet's Google and Samsung, the world's largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google's Play store from competition.

The game publisher continues to wage war in its bid to get its mobile games on smartphones without the help of Apple's and Google's storefronts.

Fortnite maker Epic Games filed a lawsuit Monday accusing Google and Samsung, the world’s largest Android maker, of conspiring to block third-party competitors of the Google Play Store. The suit, filed in federal court in California,

The game publisher alleges Samsung and Google are breaking US law by prohibiting app store alternatives on Samsung devices with features like Auto Blocker.

Epic Games is suing Google again, along with Samsung, for allegedly making the EGS install procedure prohibitively difficult on mobile.