"crap" aside, users of the Play store (as well as Apple's App Store) are overwhelmingly safe. Google now has Android Security Annual reports [0]. From that you

"crap" aside, users of the Play store (as well as Apple's App Store) are overwhelmingly safe. Google now has Android Security Annual reports [0]. From that you can see that if you only use the Play Store (no sideloading), only 0.15% of devices got a potentially harmful app. On top of Play Store's security features, if there were a malicious app that began causing trouble, Google has other mechanisms to shut down PHAs. As this vulnerability shows there are issues that are outside AOSP, Android has been shoring up more defenses in depth. [0] https://security.googleblog.com/2016/04/android-security-2015-annual-report.html https://security.googleblog.com/2016/04/android-security-201...