Google makes it easier to launch your vibe-coded apps

Google has introduced a new feature in the US that allows users to launch personal apps created with Google's AI Studio directly through the Play Store, eliminating the need to connect a phone to a computer for installation. Google first enabled vibe-coding of personal Android apps in May. The company says these apps will remain "secure, private, and separate from the public store catalog," and users can launch them with a standard Google account. A future update will let users share their apps with a select group. Google frames this as an on-ramp for aspiring developers: if users want to share their apps with the world, they can graduate to a professional developer account, subject to the same Trust & Safety reviews and quality standards, according to Sam Bright, Google's vice president and general manager of Google Play.

(Source：The Verge)