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Martin Hope
Maguz
Asked: 2020-02-08 04:59:10 +0800 CST
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Yesterday(February 6, 2017) I was bombarded with emails from Google Play Support , saying that my apps had privacy policy issues and if not changed they would be hidden.

Their solution is the following:

Add a privacy policy to the Play Store listing page

  1. Access the Google Play Developer Console .
  2. Select an app.
  3. Select the Play Store listing.
  4. In the "Privacy Policy" section, enter the URL where you have the online privacy policy hosted.
  5. Select Save Draft (new apps) or Send Update (current apps).

So far I don't know how to generate the url with the privacy policies, so I leave two questions : should I create a website and attach the privacy policies to it? Do they have to have a special format?

But then I checked my privacy tab and I found the following alert:

Your APK requests the following permissions: android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS. Apps that use these permissions in an APK must have a privacy policy configured.

I don't use this permission, but I know that using the GCM library com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.3.0 would be calling the android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS permission. I think I already have "control" (or so I hope) this problem, by adding the following line in my manifest:

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

Now, I leave the third and fourth question: If I add this line in my manifest , will the problem be solved in the Play Store? Will it affect how notifications work? (in the tests that I have carried out the notifications arrive without problem)

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Since things are slow, I EDIT to answer myself only.

The issue of removing permission using

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

In the GCM documentation it is indicated that it is used for:

For devices prior to 4.0.4, GCM communication requires users to set up their Google account on their mobile devices, but is not a requirement on devices running Android 4.0.4 or higher (API Level 15 or higher). .

Removing the permission would cause problems in versions lower than API 15, in my case minSdkVersion 11I defined then, it should not remove the permission and I am obliged to link the privacy policy... Unfortunately the permission will be displayed on devices equal to or greater than API 15 , which do not need permission. Is there a way to remove the permission only on devices higher than API 15?

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Summary of Questions:

  1. Is there a way to remove the permission only for devices higher than API 15?, that is, a different manifest per Android version
  2. Should I create a website and attach the privacy policies to it?
  3. Do they have to have a special format?
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Martin Hope
Fen Dev
Asked: 2020-04-27 14:32:57 +0800 CST
  • 14

I have a class to save the email and user that connect in the application with sharedpreferences, but it saves the data without any keyreference, so when I want to save a different data without overwriting the previous one, it does not do it, I imagine that I will need to assign some keyto reference it and be able to save the data I want without stepping on the previous one and assigning it a name:

public void save(Context context, String text) {
    SharedPreferences settings;
    Editor editor;

    settings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);

    editor = settings.edit();

    editor.putString(PREFS_KEY, text);

    editor.commit();
}

Here I call the function:

String email = _emailText.getText().toString();
sharedPreference.save(this, email);
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Martin Hope
jachguate
Asked: 2020-11-03 07:23:51 +0800 CST
  • 16

I am making an application in which I would like to receive the temperature through an Arduino. I think using Sockets is a great way to communicate, but I have no idea how to use Sockets in an Android application made with Delphi.

Is it different from how it is used in Delphi compiled for Windows?

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