LeafSnap and Simple Keyboard Took removed from Google Playstore

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31 March, 2023

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The Google Play Store is where almost all Android customers download their apps, and while itโ€™s a simple and easy process for users, developers arenโ€™t. Google is notorious for being careless, removing apps from the market for inexplicable and sometimes automated reasons. Today, they banned two additional apps from the App Store for the wrong purposes.

Why Remove the simple Keyboard From the play store

Open-source software Simple Keyboard is the latest popular app to fall victim to Googleโ€™s nefarious behavior. This app with developer removed the account from the Play Store on January 28, 2022, without any explanation.

The developer claims that there were no emails before its cancellation and that it cannot identify the alleged bug. However, three years ago, the app had some updates due to the app icon looking a lot like the Google keyboard (it has since been changed).

Simple Keyboard is a free, open-source keyboard app for Android based on the AOSP Latin keyboard used in Gboard, but without the bells and whistles; some people like emoticons, GIFs, spell check, and scrolling. No registration require.

Many other programs are on the market based on the same source code. The developer speculates that may be whyโ€”they removed their app (for example, itโ€™s flagged as a duplicate of another app, but thatโ€™s just a guess. The only contact Google will accept is emailing them to terminate an account. No, without explaining why and why:

In our view, it is unacceptable for Google to close accounts without warning of violations or even an opportunity to appeal. For example, we looked for more information if an email disappeared into spam or a statement that did not belong to the same folder.

Does it mistake Google?

However, if it mistakes Google for lack of connection, this situation can become even more complicated, preventing the developer from determining what went wrong (if the developer did something wrong). Also, what can we do to reduce or eliminate it?ย 

When stopped the app, it had already been available on the Play Store for eight years, making it one of the most popular developers on the Google Play Store with over 1.2 million installs and 104,000 daily active users. Fortunately, an open-source app released on F-Droid, but its reach is much smaller than the Google Play stores.

Both Apps Banned From Play Store

Why remove LeafSnap From the Play store

LeafSnap, a plant identification and watering schedule app, remove from the LeafSnap Play Store and the App Store on September 3, 2021. Another party falsely claimed LeafSnap infringed their copyright through a DMCA takedown notice, but it soon became public domain. He directed the other side at a faulty program with apparent confusion. He worked with LeafSnap to create and fix the bug.

The developers of LeafSnap told us that Apple responded quickly and restored the app, but it took five months before. They restored the app, even though they received the same information from their Play Store team simultaneously as Apple. On the other hand, LeafSnapโ€™s DMCA counter-notification didnโ€™t help speed up the process either, as Google said the app needed to review by their legal team, which it said was a short amount of time. More โ–ผ.

Google should take credit for its relationship with LeafSnap and the Play Store support team, which constantly contacts the appโ€™s developer. LeafSnap has been assuring us for the past few weeks that they donโ€™t have orders, but hereโ€™s the real deal: Google takes seven days to review new apps, which is one of them. So, after waiting for LeafSnap for so many months, he couldnโ€™t republish his app on the Play Store, and what we call the Google Play Store Developer Support Experience was not his fault.

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The creators of the program claim that the program has more than 3 million downloads with a rating of 4.9 stars and is among the top 50 educational programs in the US. (The Internet Archiveโ€™s latest backup numbers are slightly lower, but theyโ€™re over a million and have a 4.8 rating.) In addition to losing revenue during that time, weโ€™ve also heard that their AdMob account has been suspended. A noticeable loss was due to Googleโ€™s inability to restore the app in time.ย 

These are not the only and most frequent removals in the last two months. There are likely many developers affected by Googleโ€™s actions that donโ€™t have the same vocal support for their issues.

To give you highlights from the past few years:

Google decided that โ€œLiberโ€ means free beer and is part of a cleanup of open-source apps affecting the F-Droid Play Store account and other apps.

Google remove the video player from the Play Store because it mentions the .ass subtitle format.

Hiroshi Lockheimer personally apologized for removing Podcast Addicts from the Play Store, and the app has now been re-store.

Google is restoring the Unified Chat app to the Play Store after it was removed by mistake.

AutoVoice remove from the Play Store due to inappropriate user abuse.

Remove Indiaโ€™s most popular financial services app from the Play Store within hours. Game shop opening hours for gambling violations

It is a given that Google makes billions of dollars from in-app purchases made on the Play Store and 15-30% of total apps and developer support through in-app purchases. Independent developers take over a disaster and should because the mechanism of Googleโ€™s system is unfair. When removing their apps from the Play Store, small teams work entirely independently.

Although Google recently launched a support service to resolve issues, support from real Googlers is sometimes unavailable. Itโ€™s a shame that Google doesnโ€™t care about the needs of developers, as guides are hard to find. If the Open App Markets Act passes, Google will force alternative stores to have the same integration as the Android Play Store. It will allow other stores to compete and possibly supply.

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