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Daniel Waraksa
Daniel Waraksa

Reputation: 61

My app cant pass the Google Play review because Google says REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES is present, but it is not

I am using open_filex package especially to avoid this problem. I am confused because the permission is nowhere to be found in my particular Android manifests and manifest merge file.

I have tried to manually remove permission by tool:remove tried open_file_safe library as well. Just stopped passing reviews for some reason, maybe something is connected to newer Android version (13).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 101

Answers (1)

Diligence Vagere
Diligence Vagere

Reputation: 178

Add the following line to your AndroidManifest in order to explicity remove the REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES" tools:node="remove"/>

and on your manifest tag add

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

so that it looks something like this:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="*" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

Then build your apk or aab and then upload it Google Play Store and then submit the build for release to ALL the tracks; Internal testing, Closed testing(Alpha & Track), Open testing and Production regardless of whether the track is active or not. This is a very important step. Your build will not be rejected.

Upvotes: 1

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