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22 4 I have a react native app which is on play store for some time and recently i received this important notice from play store, stating if i don't fix this my app will be removed from play store. Can anyone tell me what this is and how to fix it? Here is the complete message from Play store We've detected that your app contains the requestLegacyExternalStorage flag in the manifest file of 1 or more of your app bundles or APKs. Developers with apps on devices running Android 11+ must use Scoped Storage to give users better access control over their device storage. To release your app on Android 11 or newer after May 5th, you must either: Update your app to use more privacy friendly best practices, such as the Storage Access Framework or Media Store API ...

I've just received this message from Google Play but I'm not collecting the Advertising ID. Reason for warning: Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID policy and section 4.8 of the Developer Distribution Agreement Google Play requires developers to provide a valid privacy policy when the app requests or handles sensitive user or device information. We’ve identified that your app collects and transmits the Android advertising ID, which is subject to a privacy policy requirement. Is it possible any of my dependencies uses it? Here's the list of dependencies: implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version" implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-common:$anko_version" implementation ("com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$android_support_version") { exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'animated-vector-drawable' exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'design...

I've just received this message from Google Play but I'm not collecting the Advertising ID. Reason for warning: Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID policy and section 4.8 of the Developer Distribution Agreement Google Play requires developers to provide a valid privacy policy when the app requests or handles sensitive user or device information. We’ve identified that your app collects and transmits the Android advertising ID, which is subject to a privacy policy requirement. Is it possible any of my dependicies uses it? Here's the list of dependencies: implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version" implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-common:$anko_version" implementation ("com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$android_support_version") { exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'animated-vector-drawable' exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'design' ...