I'm trying to publish a SMS Gateway Android application to the PlayStore.
The application basically receives messages via socket.io through a background service and sends them via SMS (the message and recipient phone number are within the received messages).
From my understanding recently google has completely restricted the use for SEND_SMS permission outside apps that are not default SMS handlers - which my app is not.
Not sure if registering as a default SMS handler is the right solution since the application doesn't use the resto of the typical permissions for a SMS handler app (and can't do those functions, like read SMS).
Could there be a way to actually get my application approved or it's just a waste of time to argue with them?
EDIT: This is the rejection reason
