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Google Play Device and Network Abuse policy

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Hello Team,

Today I’ve received email from Google with following words:

Your app contains content that doesn’t comply with the Device and Network Abuse policy. We found your app is using a non-compliant version of Huawei Mobile Services SDK which contains code to download or install applications from unknown sources outside of Google Play.

After 120 days, new app releases containing this non-compliant version of this SDK will be rejected. This SDK version violates Device & Network Abuse policy.

About the Device and Network Abuse policy

An app distributed via Google Play may not modify, replace, or update itself using any method other than Google Play’s update mechanism. Likewise, an app may not download executable code (e.g. dex, JAR, .so files) from a source other than Google Play. Please note that you are responsible for all aspects of your app; by using an SDK in your app, you are responsible for how that SDK behaves within your app.

Our flutter apps have HMS/GMS support and they select corresponding service in runtime - and there are was no claims from Google till today. Now we need to resolve the issue within 120 days. Currently only barcode scan, push and location services from HMS are used

Do you have any suggestions how to proceed?

PS: Currently we don’t use any in-app-update functionality from HMS.

Best Regards, Vladimir Kormin

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:13

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ozkulbengcommented, Jul 7, 2022

Hello all, So far, we have updated Safety Detect, IAP, Health, FIDO, Push, Account, Ads, Analytics, Map, Location, Site, ML Body, ML Text, ML Language, ML Image and Base (HMS Availability) plugins to the related versions that “delete the capability of prompting users to install HMS Core (APK)”. You can find the latest versions on pub.dev.

Thank you all for your interest in our plugins.

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Xuejiao-Shicommented, Jul 28, 2022

Update: Note: If you have confirmed that the latest SDK version is used, before submitting a release to Google, please check the apks in all Testing track on Google Play Console(including Open testing, Closed testing, Internal testing). Ensure that the APKs on all tracks(including paused track) have updated to the latest HMS Core SDK.

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