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Play Protect Blocking Custom DPC Apps — How to Get Approval or Alternatives?
Hi Everyone,
After lot investigation I found the root cause. The app included certain sensitive permissions that are not allowed by Play Protect. Once I removed those restricted permissions, the app stopped getting flagged and worked as expected.
For more details, Google provides guidance on Play Protect warnings and how to avoid them here:
https://developers.google.com/android/play-protect/warning-dev-guidanceHope this helps anyone running into the same challenge!
It's also worth noting that the app sideloads just fine, when obviously, it does not get DO permission. This is only an issue when installing via a QRCode scan from factory reset.
I will put it to our management to try uploading to Play. Don't think that will be a quick decision 😒
Do refer to Kulwinder's response also. That won't help it explicitly complaining about sideloading but if you can descope any other overbearing permissions perhaps it'll leave you alone?
Yes I even tried removing all permissions and replacing them with the ones from our older, still working DPC. They were almost the same anyway, but that made no difference.
I'm now puzzled why our previous DPC is not blocked and worried it might be!
Although I'm wondering if some buggy development behaviour has triggered this issue as it is undergoing rapid changes.
