Play Store: App has been removed for violating Location permission policy

Question

Our app has been removed from the play store due to the violation of the location permission policy. According to their rejection mail, we have been using the user's background location but actually, in our app, we only use the user's location only while using the app. We have added these two API permissions(access_coarse_location,access_fine_location) explicitly in our manifest file which is used only for foreground location access. So we have re-submit the app again and again but the app got rejected for the same reason.

Also, we have declared in the location permission policy form that we don’t access user location in the background and attached a demo video link as well.

We also made an appeal a few days back but did not get any information on that so far. Our business has been impacted a lot because of this inconvenience.

Details:

Ti SDK: 9.0.3.GA
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="19" android:targetSdkVersion="30"/>

App Manifest:

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

Your help will be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This kind of issue coming because you are getting user location in background task like async task, handler and others sources. Please get location in foreground. After that resubmit the in play store.