Protected with Play
Monitor and configure app integrity, distribution, and monetization defenses all in one place and ensure users experience your apps and games as intended.
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Protected with Play
Monitor, configure, and defend your business from one single dashboard, with tools for integrity, distribution, and monetization protection.
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Play Integrity API
Use Play Integrity API to check for risky devices and security threats during important user actions and server requests. Get started with the official sample .
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Automatic protection
Turn on automatic protection to protect your apps and games against unauthorized redistribution and piracy. When users get your protected app from an unknown distribution channel, they’ll be prompted to get your official app from Google Play.
Best practices
- Visit your Protected with Play dashboard in Play Console to monitor and configure your app integrity, distribution, and monetization defenses on a regular basis.
- Use Play Integrity API to understand your existing install base and estimate the potential impact of any changes to functionality that you want to make.
- Opt in to new Play Integrity API verdicts to see if Play Protect is turned on or has found known malware and to see if other apps are running that could be used to capture the screen or control the device.
- Turn on the automatic protection device check to strengthen your app’s protection against unauthorized redistribution and piracy. This feature is only available to select Play partners.
Find out more
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Get started with Play Integrity API
Learn about the security considerations, recommended practices, and how to set up your Play Integrity API integration
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Turn on automatic protection
Learn how to turn on automatic protection in Play Console
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Manage Play App Signing
Learn how to configure and manage Play App Signing in Play Console
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Learn about the Android App Bundle
Take a free, on-demand course to learn more about Play App Signing and the Android App Bundle
More on app quality
Make the most of your pre-launch period to test and gather feedback, then monitor your performance post release
Console features
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Latest releases and bundles
Manage all your app bundles, versions, and assets in one place and get useful metadata, downloads, and insight into what Google Play generates for delivery.
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Releases overview
Monitor your builds to manage your releases at every stage of the process
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Pre-launch reports
Spot issues before they affect your users. Test on a range of Android devices to learn more about your app's stability, performance, accessibility, and more.
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Android vitals
Monitor and improve the technical quality of your app or game. Android vitals reports on key user-impacting issues and helps you to debug and prioritize across them.

