Play Store Compliance

contact list play store upload issue overview as of march 2017 google's prominent disclosure requirements https //support google com/googleplay/android developer/answer/9888076?hl=en became effective and applications uploaded to the play store are required to comply with these requirements, or risk facing a rejection/removal from the google play store your application must inform the users of any sensitive data collected by it, and provide the user with the option to refuse the data collection contact list statistics collected by forter until may 2019 up until may 2019, forter's sdk had the capability of counting the number of contacts on an android device, assuming the app had requested (and granted) the contacts permission by the user it is important to mention that forter never collected full contact details (numbers and/or names) only the count of contacts on the device itself and only if the app already received access to that information this code was completely disabled for all of our merchants, by default, starting may 2019 however, the technical capability to collect this information still exists in sdk versions smaller than 2 4 6 it is important to mention, that google might reject your build from the play store if it contains code that access the contacts list, and does not include prominent disclosure even if the code itself is not invoked in any use case use an sdk version greater than 2 4 6 the code that access the contacts list was removed completely from the sdk in version 2 4 6 , and this capability no longer exists on our sdk updating to the latest sdk version will resolve any issues you might be facing when uploading your application to the play store react native plugin the earliest react native plugin version which points to sdk version 2 4 6 is v0 1 12