Google Play's integrity and signing services help you ensure that users experience your apps and games in the way you intend. You can use the Protected with Playpage (accessible in the left hand menu on your app dashboard) in Play Console to:
- Automatic Protection: Set up protections to prevent unauthorized modification and redistribution of your app.
- Play Integrity API: Configure threat detection services to protect your apps from risky devices and interactions.
- Play Store protection: Manage Play app signing and monitor always-on protections against security issues, spam, and store listing manipulation.
- Play Billing protection: Protect your revenue and business from fraud and suspicious purchase activity related to purchases and subscriptions.
You can also quickly check the status of each of these services.
Overview
Protected with Play is a centralized page that replaces the old App integrity page. This page provides a unified view of Google Play's protection and anti-abuse services. Here you can find a status badge indicating your app's overall protection status depending on whether your app uses protection services from one ("Default"), two ("Good"), or all ("High") of the grouped services. Services are grouped into expandable sections: Automatic Protection, Play Integrity API, Play Store protection, and Play Billing protection. When available for a service, you can configure it and access other features in its settings menu. When available for a service, you can see key metrics and access a detailed report from the monitoring section.
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Automatic protectionUse Google Play’s automatic protection to protect your apps and games against integrity abuse in the form of unauthorized modification and redistribution. Automatic protection works in your app without a data connection. It can be turned on with one-click in the Play Console and requires no developer work before testing and no backend server integration.
Learn more about automatic protection.
Call the Integrity API at important moments in your app to check that it's your app binary, installed by Google Play, running on a genuine Android device. Your app's backend server can decide what to do next to prevent abuse, unauthorized access and attacks. After integrating the Integrity API, you can monitor your app's API requests and analyze verdicts via reports generated by your install base.
Get started with the following resources:
- View the Play Integrity API documentation on the Android developers’ website.
- Learn more about using the Play Integrity API in Play Console.
Use Play App Signing to allow Google Play to manage and protect your app signing key and use it to sign each release. This makes sure that any updates are from you.
Learn more about using Play App Signing.
Turn on integrity checks for your store listing so that Google Play can check that devices pass integrity checks before making your store listing visible to users.
Tips:
- This service does not require you to integrate the Play Integrity API in your app. The Play Store app obtains a device verdict on the device itself and uses it to determine store listing visibility.
- By turning on integrity checks, you can reduce your app’s availability to risky devices such as rooted or compromised devices, emulators and unknown environments.
- This does not prevent users from obtaining your app another way such as through another distribution channel or via sideloading, so consider using runtime protection as well such as the Play Integrity API or automatic protection.
To use store listing visibility integrity checks:
- Open Play Console and go to the the App integrity page (Test and release > App integrity)
- Go to the "Store listing visibility" section.
- Choose whether you want to turn on integrity checks for your Google Play store listing. Unknown and untrustworthy devices that fail integrity checks will not be able to install your app from Google Play:
- No integrity checks: Your store listing will be visible to all devices that you support.
- Device integrity checks: Your store listing will be visible to all devices that you support that meet device integrity checks.
- Save your changes.