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GD VanLoi
GD VanLoi

Reputation: 33

App update upload failed 14 times on Google Play

I'm having a really hard time getting new app updates on Google Play:

Before that, I successfully uploaded my app first version (1.0.0) and got approved (April 16, 2021), then I got user feedback regarding Android 11 because it was not possible. read some files, after a while of researching I added the MANAGEMENT_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to AndroidManifest.xml and uploaded the updated version 1.0.1 but was rejected because Google does not allow the use of the above permission & asked to remove it. waive this right.

Issue: Access to device storage not required The feature you identified does not require unrestricted access to device storage. There are other privacy friendly options for accessing files in shared storage, such as using the system file picker, or, on the use case, you can follow the recommendations for receiving data from other apps listed here. Please update your app so that the feature uses a privacy friendly alternative and remove All Files Access (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) permission.

I continued to do more research and found it was directed as "Change Target SDK 30 -> 29 and Remove MANAGEMENT_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission from AndroidManifest.xml", I followed and re-uploaded again but still denied, to now the number of times i have tried up to 14 times (tried always build .aab & .apk) but nothing changed...

I don't know if there is a better solution so hopefully someone can help me and most importantly why did I remove the permission but Google still reported the reason as above? Thanks everyone.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 196

Answers (1)

Saurabh Dhage
Saurabh Dhage

Reputation: 1711

Steps to follow:

1.Remove MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

2.change version code and version name

3 change api level and build level to 30

4.clean build

  1. Genreate signed Apk

It should work now

Upvotes: 1

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