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I plan to include GCM into my app and now I don't know if it needs to be in the privacy policy. And where can I get a good privacy policy for an app for the play store? Are there any privacy policy creators or something like this?
Yoy may take privacy policy of any app in Google Play and convert it to fit your needs.
These off-topic questions tend to be closed after a while, let's try to get your questions answered anyway:
First I would advise you to read some general guidance on the topic, like the one presented by the Attorney General of California called Privacy on the Go. When you're knowledgeable about the topic you might as well try privacy policy generators and see whether they suit your particular case.
I'm part of iubenda, a team with a mix developers/designers/lawyers who are building tools exactly for this use case: apps and websites. You can find the generator for mobile apps here. iubenda's mobile privacy policy is on a paid only plan currently, but you can always test drive the generator for your website's policy.
Now as a general caveat let me advise against copying off of other sites or apps (as suggested by the answer before me). You may infringe copyright and import several other problems. Who tells you that the pp/terms you decided to be fit for copy aren't fundamentally flawed themselves?
Today there's great guidance out there, and great help like the one provided by iubenda. Take advantage of it!
edit regarding the comment pointing out that iubenda is paid: that's right and I've added a sentence regarding this to the answer. One of the advantages of a paid policy is that you get to ask questions and request improvements any time :)
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I don't know if it's a stupid question but there are lots of free public APIs in this github repository: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Is it safe to make apps with such free APIs and publish them in play store, app store? What I mean is that maybe the person who created the API will make a mistake and send an image for adults against the rules. Or can they complain for copyright reasons? I mean, I don't question the reliability of APIs of huge companies like Riot games. I'm mostly wondering if it's okay to use APIs from indie developers?
I've heard that many people play console and apple developer accounts have been closed. I was wondering if using the public API can cause our developer account to be terminated due to a mistake or complaint. Or should we not use free public APIs just in case?
No it is not safe to do so. You're trusting that some random code written by some random person works as expected, is secure, is well written, and isn't malicious. Would you trust your safety and security on that? If I handed you a file and told you "trust me, it isn't a keylogger, run it on your computer" would you do that?
Heck, look at major scandals of the past few years like leftpad (when a developer deleted a very commonly used library from github, and caused everyone who used it to stop compiling). Or there was an instance where someone inserted a Christmas time easter egg a few years back and websites started snowing. You can't just trust them.
I'm not saying that you can't use any github library. But be smart about it. You should only consider it under 3 conditions:
It's from a source you trust. Google probably isn't going to purposefully put a trojan in their code. Similar for other large orgs.
It's a well known, highly used library. Of course even this isn't perfect. People have managed to slip exploits into open source before.
You've security audited the exact version of the library you plan to use.
If it passes one of these 3, it's probably ok. But if it hasn't, you shouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
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I know, it's silly, but a client was telling us that having required input fields on an app will result in the app being rejected for approval on both Android and iOS app stores.
Besides the fact that there are tons of apps that require user account registration and stuff, I figured it'd be silly to even verify it by research but of course, to be sure, I did research about it, but as I expected, I was not able to find even one relevant result.
Since it will cause problems with app development, I decided to ask here to confirm.
Does anybody know of such rule when submitting apps to the Google Play Store or App Store?
I apologize in advance for what I know is a very silly question, but I humbly ask for confirmation.
Thank you very much in advance!
No, in Android we don't have this rule, so you can use input fields in your application without worrying.
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Yesterday I put up my Android app on the Google play store. Today the app was removed from it without proper reason. Reason for suspension of app
REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy. Please refer to the IP infringement and impersonation policy help article for more information.
Your app and/or elements of its listing on Google Play, including title, description, logo(s), or promotional screen-shots must not include unauthorized usage of protected works belonging to a third party.
Your app icon and promotional screen-shots must not contain images that appear confusingly similar to existing products.
My app name: Finger Scan Locker
icon and screen shots are desgined by our desginer.
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I don't copy the icon and screen shots,that are developed by my designer.
This is my second app got suspended from Google play store with same reason.
so,can any one give me solution am i missing anything?
Thanks in advance..
As a comment says it might be your icon that is detected as an Apple IP infrigment because it is an iphone. Ask your designer how he did it.
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I am aware that the nature of this question is not programming related, however, Spotify customer service simply redirected me to the support section of the developer site, and I have not received a response on IRC.
After reading through the terms of use several times (https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/libspotify/terms-of-use-us/), it seems that it is not legal to charge for an app that uses libspotify or charge for it, but I am trying to make sure. Is there anyone from Spotify who knows the answer for sure? Or is there a forum for which this question is more appropriate?
I can't answer your Question.
In fact nobody who is not an employee of Spotify can answer your Question.
And probably a Spotify employee who is reading this cannot answer your Question because:
he / she is not on top of these issues because he / she is a developer, not a lawyer or someone involved in the business side of Spotify, and / or
he / she has been instructed to NOT answer Questions like this.
A Spotify developer providing public answers to questions like this could put the company in an awkward position if there ever was a legal dispute about the way some person / company was using Spotify services. (And that need not be a dispute involving you ...)
Your best options are to persist with your attempts to contact Spotify through support and other channels. If you don't get satisfaction by those routes, employ a lawyer to give you a legal opinion based on the Terms of Use ... and the relevant law.
.... and the person was unable to redirect me to the developer team after asking for that.
That is not surprising. The developer team are not the right people to answer legal questions ... or questions that relate to the Spotify business model.
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I am writing an application which I hope to build a client for in Android.
However, I am fairly inexperienced in Android development and am looking for droid devs who would be willing to contribute to my open source client.
Where can I find such people? I dont care where they are, just as long as they have a strong grasp on the english language.
*edit: to clarify - I am not trying to recruit people through stackoverflow, merely where such people would register as willing contributors looking for a project, so I can look through their profiles and get in contact with them.
I would post you project on an open source repository website like GitHub or Google Code. And start making commits and post information on the app. Most open source projects start with a few devs and the community kicks in once you have a decent user base. I feel like the best way to recruit people to to put your project out there and show people that it has potential. Then people will want to contribute to it.
Maybe you are looking for Android contributors group.