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Data safety form and privacy policy

P
I uploaded an app to the Google Play store a couple of years ago. I got an email from Google recently about the need to complete the data safety form and upload a privacy policy if I wish to make any further updates to my app.

My problem is I'm not sure what I need to declare. I've read through the guide here https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/10787469 but I'm still not sure.

My app doesn't gather any user data, but it does use the Google Play billing service to allow users to make purchases. It also uses the Google Play In-App Review API to occasionally prompt the user to review the app.

Do I need to declare these?

It looks like I also need a privacy policy now. Any guidance on how to create a bog basic policy that would cover the above?

Thanks.
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Help Is it okay to Perform a factory reset at 30% ?

svim
A Factory Reset is not in any way a highly processor intensive function so a 30% charge on the battery isn't an issue. Factory Reset does just one thing, it wipes the user data partition clean and that's it. It doesn't affect any of the system partitions, it doesn't magically do anything to the installed Android operating system, it just clears the data off of one partition in the internal storage media.
But you would be better off waiting a bit to charge up your device more. The Reset itself isn't an issue, it's the reason as to why you're actually needing to do a Factory Reset that could be something to consider. If it's stuck in a boot loop, a Factory Reset 'might' solve the issue but keep in mind that you'll also be wiping any saved data and personal files. Hopefully it's a matter where you don't have anything vital stored on this tablet or that you have backups.
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App Inventor Cannot invoke observer on a background thread

P
hi all, I'm implementing a REST Full WebService API which has only one GET method.
Inside this method I created an observer to read the <LiveData> returned by a function, but when I try to read it gives me an error: cannot invoke observe on a background thread
Here my code:

@AndroidEntryPoint
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity()
{
private lateinit var verViewModel: VerificationViewModel
private lateinit var qrCodeText: String
var certStatus: String = "vuoto"

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

verViewModel = ViewModelProvider(this)[VerificationViewModel::class.java]

embeddedServer(Netty, 8000)
{
install(StatusPages) {
exception<Throwable> { e ->
call.respondText(e.localizedMessage, ContentType.Text.Plain, HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError)
}
}

install(ContentNegotiation)
{
gson {}
}

routing{
get("/getStatus/{qrText}") {
certStatus ="vuoto"
qrCodeText = CastNullableString(call.parameters["qrText"])
certStatus = validateGreenPass(qrCodeText)
call.respond(Response(status = certStatus))
}
}
}.start(wait=true)
}

data class Response (val status: String)

fun CastNullableString(str:String?):String
{
if (str == null)
{
return ""
}
else
{
return str
}
}

private fun validateGreenPass(qrCodeText: String):String
{
var status:String = "Vuoto"
try
{
val certObserver = Observer<CertificateSimple?> {
fun onChanged(@nullable personModel: SimplePersonModel,@nullable date:String,certificateStatus:CertificateStatus,@nullable time: Date){
status = certificateStatus.toString()
}
}
verViewModel.certificate.observe(this,certObserver) (when execute this give me error)
verViewModel.decode(qrCodeText, false);
}
catch (e: Exception)
{
status = "ERROR: " + CastNullableString(e.message)
}
return (status)
}
}
Anyone know how to help me?
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Screenshot editor

mikedt
Kaz String said:
Sorry to be thick but which app is it ?
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Presumably it's this app, and you posted in the forum for it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.waskysoft.screenshotassistant

Although quite frankly you shouldn't even need to use a third-party screen-shot editor with this phone, as the S21, Note20, and other recent Samsungs have a good screen-shot editor feature included. Which I'm sometimes using myself to crop and resize my screen-shots.
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Copying Apps AND Data AND Settings to New Phone

mikedt
neil154 said:
How do people who change Android phones all the time (reviewers, etc.) copy the old phone apps and settings to the new phones
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I suspect professional reviewers will also have their own personal devices they keep for a long time. And are not doing private things like banking or messaging on a device that isn't theirs and may only be looking at and evaluating for a few hours or days.
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A32 5G constantly losing network

svim
Keep in mind that there's the marketing version of all the glories that 5G will provide, and there's reality.
Here in the U.S. the implementation for 5G is spotty, very regional, and fractured by corporate indecision (involving different types of 5G protocols) so it all boils down to if you are in one of the limited 5G coverage zones, it's incredible, but when you're not it might be usable or it might not even be available. So just depending on your where you reside can be a factor. Personally I can get by fine with just good 4G connectivity, and just ignore all the 5G nuttiness until things just settle down.

Try creating a new APN entry and see if that makes your cellular connectivity more reliable. Here's a link to T-Mobile's site:
https://www.t-mobile.com/support/devices/not-sold-by-t-mobile/byod-t-mobile-data-and-apn-settings
Usually just installing a new SIM card will trigger your phone to automatically create a new APN entry but sometimes that process doesn't work out. You could just edit an existing APN entry but creating a new one is safer (you can always revert back to the original APN entry if your newly created one is a problem.)
So create a new one following T-Mobile's recommended settings, be sure to use the exact wording, spaces, and capitalization. Select this new APN entry, and be sure to restart your phone so it gets used as the new configuration.
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Help Status bar notification symbol meaning

ocnbrze
we get this question almost everyday. the problem is that there are millions upon millions of apps each with their own notification icons. so unless it is a popular app, most of these questions go unanswered.

the easiest way to know what it is is to look into the phone's notifications to see what it is. most of the time though, the op does not have access to the phone. but in your case, it is an old screenshot.

sorry but i have not seen those icons before. the picture is really fuzzy so hard to say. the "s" could be anything. look for apps that start with an "s".
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Exporting a 64bit Android app that uses TinCan (xAPI)

APVBri
I'm using the Unity game engine to develop an Android app. It's using the TinCan.NET xAPI library for tracking user activity.

The app already works when built to Android with the "Mono" scripting backend. But when I switch to "IL2CPP" (for the Google Play 64bit requirement), I suddenly have build issues with the TinCan.dll and any script that uses it. It gives me a "
No action for the assembly TinCan, Version=1.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7e2d97554f738180 defined" Linker error.

This is the best tutorial I've come across. He only uses "Mono", and even in the comments, he acknowledges that it doesn't work on IL2CPP for him and someone calls out the apparent lack of support for IL2CPP/64bit.


tl;dr: Is there a way to build 64bit APK/AAB with TinCan?
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The Impossible Text

Trom
silasp said:
I received a text from my wife yesterday that read "Great. Thanks." As I hadn't recently done anything worthy of her gratitude I replied "For what?". She then called me from the other room and asked what I meant and I told her I was replying to her text. She said she had not just sent me a text. I said she probably intended it for someone else but she insisted she had not just sent anyone a text. I went and took a look at her phone and, sure enough, there was no text to me, only my "For what?" reply. I scrolled through all her recent texts and there was no "Great. Thanks".

I tried to imagine a scenario where someone could receive a text that doesn't appear on the senders phone or how someone could send a text but have it appear to be from someone else, but I failed. I hate having something stump me like this. Does anyone have any idea how this could happen?
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Export your texts to file and check out the metadata.
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How to disable only 3G

Hadron
How does your phone connect to 3G if that has been turned off? If there is no 3G signal it should connect to 2G (if your network is still broadcasting 3G but not offering a service then they are morons!).

Anyway, I don't think you can, or at least it's at your own risk to try. I've looked in the hidden "testing" menu (type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer and select "phone information") and the only option I can see in the "set preferred network type" that includes 4G (LTE) and 2G (GSM) but not 3G (WCDMA) includes protocols that are only available in China and which I'm not aware that my phone's hardware supports, so I'd be wary of selecting that option in case it also had some other side-effect. If you do decide to try this please make sure you note what the current setting is first, and do not change anything else: this is an engineering menu, not something that is supposed to be touched by the general user, and if you mess up the settings in there you can lose basic telephony features. It's one of the few places on an unrooted phone where it's possible to really mess things up in a way that isn't easy to fix, and I've seen people who didn't take sufficient care with this menu do just that. But it's also the only place in the phone where you can make changes to the network that go beyond what's available in the regular system settings (which on my Pixel offers 4G or 3G, nothing else).
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