Common Publish Issue

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If you have trouble when publishing the Flutter to App Store or Google Play Following solutions could save your days

Issue 8: Deep link issue [Android]

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Deep links not working

Users will not go directly to your app from links associated with this path, but will see the app picker or be directed to the web browser. Once you have fixed these issues and published a new version, users need to update their app before the links will work.

You can ignore this issue, it will not affect your application. If not, you can refer to the solution below. But please note that when you open your website on a mobile phone, it will open the app instead of the browser.

Get your Digital Asset Links JSON on Google Play Console and put this content into a JSON file assetlinks.json (Recommend)

Or create a JSON file assetlinks.json like the following example and replace package_name and sha256_cert_fingerprints with your one


[
    {
        "relation": [
            "delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls"
        ],
        "target": {
            "namespace": "android_app",
            "package_name": "[your-bundle-id]",
            "sha256_cert_fingerprints": [
                "[your-SHA-256]"
            ]
        }
    }
]

If you are using Play App Signing, please find your SHA-256 key here on Google Play Console (Recommend)

Or if you are Self-signing Your Application, please refer to this guide to get SHA-256 from your KeyStore file Authenticating Your Client | Google Play services | Google for Developers

Then upload and publish this JSON file to this location on your website https://[your-website]/.well-known/assetlinks.json. Please make sure Google can access this link without any restrictions and redirect

Go to your Google Play Console again and press Recheck verification button

You can refer to Google document: Verify Android App Links | Android Developers

Issue 7: Android crash on Google Pre-Release report [Android]

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Flutter app crashes on /lib/arm64 - couldn't find "libflutter.so"

If you're getting the error above from a pre-release report or any testing phrases, don't worry, you will still be able to fully publish your app.

This seems to be a bug from one of google's test virtual machines and is related to flutter because Flutter does not currently support building for x86 Android (source) So, please ignore this error and continue to the production release.

You can refer to this issue from Flutter team

Android crash: Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[DexPathList[[zip file "/system/framework/android.test.runner.jar", zip file "/system/framework/org.apache.http.legacy.boot.jar"........

Updated Sep 1, 2024

Issue 6: Advertising ID declaration (gms.permission.AD_ID) [Android]

Because we use Firebase Analytics in the project so Google can reject the app with this issue

Solution: Set your app to use advertising ID.

Issue 5: Unicode App name issue

When using the release v3.3.0, there may have an issue with the App name if using a Unicode Character, for example, Arabic or Vietnamese language.

Solution: Update file android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and replace ${appName} by your new App name

Issue 4: Why does the new version require Privacy [iOS]

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Your app contains NSUserTrackingUsageDescription, which indicates that it has to request permission to track users. To update this information on your app's product page, you must indicate what types of data track users. If not, update your app binary file and upload a new build to App Store Connect. Why does the new version require Privacy - Tracking Usage Description permission?

Solution/Answer

This permission is require on latest iOS 14.x when submitting on Appstore, the FluxStore is using Google Mobile Ads that user for display Ads and require the this permission Ref: https://pub.dev/packages/google_mobile_ads

Solution 1: Update App Privacy

Update the Data Collection to Yes

Update the Usage Data, enable the option Analytics

Solution 1.1: Update App Privacy

Follow the instructions in the image below:

Solution 2: Remove google_mobile_ads google analytic and flutter_facebook_auth

Comment or remove the google_mobile_ads - file pubspec.yaml

Comment or remove the whole file lib/modules/advertisement/google_advertisement.dart

Comment or remove the code as screenshot on file lib/modules/advertisement/advertisement_mixin.dart

Similar for flutter_facebook_auth, search flutter_facebook_auth.dart and remove the

Issue 3: QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission and Data safety [Android]

If you get the warning from Google Play about the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGE policy issue

Solution:

To resolve this issue, please make sure that you're using our latest source code (version 3.10.5 or later) to build your application (apk or abb file).

Once you've done that, you'll need to create new releases to replace the old versions on Google Play. Don't forget to increase the version number of your app as well.

In addition, please double-check the other tracks Internal Testing, Closed Testing, and Open Testing (if one of them has the old version of your app). Deactivate any old versions that may be using QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES by creating a new release and uploading the latest file there, as shown in this image: https://take.ms/06VmB2

Issue 2: Invalid Data safety section [Android]

The FluxStore app content the advertisement feature google_mobile_ads

Detail issue


Issue: Invalid Data safety section

We reviewed your app's Data safety section in Play Console and found discrepancies between it and how the app collects and shares user data. All apps are required to complete an accurate Data safety section that discloses their data collection and sharing practices - this is a requirement even if your app does not collect any user data.

We detected user data transmitted off device that you have not disclosed in your app's Data safety section as user data collected.

Issue details

We found an issue in the following area(s):

Policy Declaration for Play Safety Label: Location Data Type - Precise Location
Starting in February 2022, Data safety sections reviewed and approved will start appearing to users; make any changes needed by then. Starting April 2022, your app must be in compliance with this policy or app updates will be rejected. If your app continues to be non-compliant beyond April 2022 your app may face additional enforcement actions in the future.

Please make changes to align your app's Data safety section with the app's behavior. This can be done by either:

Updating your form in Play Console to declare collection of Data Types noted below; or
Removing unwanted functionality and attributable code that collects this user data from your app or libraries used in your app, and when applicable to deactivate all non-compliant APKs.
To deactivate non-compliant APKS, you can create a new release and upload a compliant APK to each track containing the non-compliant APKs.
Be sure to increment the APK version code. If using staged rollout, be sure to set the release to 100% rollout.

Solution 1: Open Google Play Console → App content and Start the Data safety form