App Rejected Due to Policy Violation – Device and Network Abuse

[saimedev]

AoA,

I integrated this library into my app, but my submission to the Google Play Store was rejected due to a violation of the Device and Network Abuse policy. The rejection states that my app contains content that doesn't comply with this policy.

Here are the details from Google Play:

Violation: The app may be modifying, replacing, or updating itself using a method other than Google Play's update mechanism. It may also be downloading executable code (e.g., dex files, JARs, .so files) dynamically, which is not allowed.

📌 Google Play Policy Reference:
Device and Network Abuse policy

Could you please clarify if this library has any functionality that might be causing this issue? If so, is there a way to disable or modify it to comply with Google Play policies?

I appreciate your help!

[farimarwat]

Actually the library downloads packages dynamically from the parent repo: youtubedl-android which are .so.

look at:
https://github.com/farimarwat/YoutubeDl-Boom/blob/main/library/src/main/java/com/farimarwat/downloadmanager/YoutubeDlFileManager.kt

[saimedev]

How to handle this issue?

[farimarwat]

package all downloadable in the bundle and do not download dynamically. I will try my best to modify the library as soon as possible but this will increase the size of the bundle

[saimedev]

If the library add on-demand

[farimarwat]

If the library add on-demand

No. will still raise the voilation. Let me include all these downloadables locally.