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It has happened to all of us: you purchase that new app from the Google Play Store, confident that you are going to love it. But then you don’t. Whether it’s an incompatibility issue with your particular phone, or the app just turns out to not be what you were promised, it sucks to feel like you’ve wasted your money on something you’ll never use. Time to get a Google Play refund. The good news is that Google has a refund process built right into the Play Store.  The downside is that if you want a hassle-free refund process, you will have to act rather quickly. Here’s how to get a refund on apps you bought from the Play Store. Get an easy Google Play refund The easiest way to get a Google Play refund on a recently purchased app or game is to request a refund directly on the Play Store. The process is extremely simple, with no questions asked, but there’s a catch. You have to act quickly. In fact, you’ll have to submit a refund request wit...

It's coming up on two years now since Google first introduced the idea of Android Instant Apps. Instead of users having to download and install a full app prior to using it, Instant Apps allowed developers to give users a way to jump right into app screens and start interacting with them, as easily as if they'd clicked a link to a webpage. Not only did that let you get things done faster, but also served as some smart advertising for devs; if a user liked what they saw with Instant Apps, they might consider downloading and installing the full thing. Now it's time for the next evolution of this feature, with the debut of Google Play Instant for games. The news comes to us as part of the announcements from Google Developer Day at this year's Game Developers Conference. While Instant Apps functionality is nothing new by now, its focus has been on productivity titles and services. Google Play Instant brings that same kind of immediate software gratification to Androi...

The Google Play Store is constantly changing and evolving - sometimes in not-so-great ways. Ads have been on the store for years, but usually only in the form of promoted apps that appear in search results. Google will be ramping up Play Store advertising over the next few months, with the addition of video ads. The only good news here is that the video ads won't be autoplaying, and they will be targeted using machine learning. So at the very least, you should get ads relevant to the types of games and apps you already use. Video ads will be available "over the next few months" to developers using Universal App campaigns