Google is reportedly buying Play Store app code from devs, and you can guess why

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR 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