Google is reportedly buying Play Store app code from devs, and you can guess why
- Google is reportedly paying select Play Store developers for access to their app source code as part of a confidential program aimed at improving its AI coding tools.
- Developers invited to participate can reportedly license their code to Google while retaining full ownership and intellectual property rights.
While Anthropic’s Claude Code and GitHub Copilot are in a league of their own with their AI coding tools, Google seems to be running low on free data to train its artificial intelligence — and the search giant is apparently turning to Android developers to fix the problem.
According to a new report from 404 Media, Google has quietly started offering money to select Play Store developers for access to their app source code. The move is reportedly part of a confidential pilot program designed to improve the company’s AI-powered coding tools.
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Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.
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