Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps

Re:Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps by nextweek2 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:44PM (#27702011)

We had an app in the store and a download on our product page.

Months in, a new update and Google banned the app forever with no recourse.

You can distribute it but not as you. T&C violation.

We had to create a new app and remove the download.

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Re:Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps by dataflow on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:49PM (#27702090)

The heck. Thanks for sharing that. How is that even legal? Do you happen to remember what clause it violates?

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Re:Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps by nextweek2 on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:13PM (#27714836)

I had to go look it up, the clause was: Issue: Violation of Malicious Behavior policy

With this as the explanation: Potentially malicious external APKs within the App.

The App had a link to our website on it's dashboard, our website had a download for all installers (we're cross-platform) and it was the same APK but because of potential for it being malicious, they suspended the app with no recourse. (We did remove the APK download, but couldn't update the App to remove the link to the website)

This was in 2018 and we had been in the store for about a year at that point. It was a patch update that triggered it.

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