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[Android] Google Policy Violation with app permissions

Greetings,

We've just received today a notification from google that the following permissions should be removed from the application in order for it to not get removed from the Play Store: READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE / WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE.

We would like to know how these permissions can be removed as we're building the app from your platform, not locally and there are no options to disable them within the dashboard's Permissions tab, also to know what impact would these have if disabled, as in our case, the user only has to take some pictures for verification purposes and in Android 10 & 13, testing locally without these permissions, it seems to work just fine.

The deadline is in 7 days, but we expect a faster resolution from your side in order to solve this issue.

As a side note, we've also noticed that the photos taken within the app are not getting saved within the app's storage space, but in the device's Gallery since like last year, still. Looking through the source code, I've noticed that you're using the default "Pictures" path for files_pictures, same for Downloads, even tho the build was made every time with the option "Files saved private to app".


Thanks.