Update to Google Play Developer API version 3 on December 1 2019

Solar2D Android
#1

Hi,

I got attached “Google Play Developer API” message on my Google Play Console. My app is using the google play Inapp purchase plugin (“plugin.google.iap.v3”). And my corona build is 2019.3517 (2019.8.16).

What should I do for this?

Thanks,

Alex

#2

We are investigating…

Rob

#3

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the investigation. So, this is something related to corona sdk? I just want to make sure that this is not some mistake I made in the code.

Thanks,

Alex

#4

Hi Alex. I don’t believe this is something you can address and it’s something we are going to have to take care of.

Rob

#5

Thanks Rob! I will wait for the fix.

#6

If you have updates to do, don’t hold them off because of this warning. I don’t know how long this will take and as long as we address it by December you will just need another update then.

#7

Hi i am having the same warning building in corona 2019.3509, but i don’t have in app purchases. This is my build.settings:

settings = { splashScreen = { enable = false }, orientation = { default = "portrait", --initial launch orientation content = "", --locked orientation of the Corona stage, independent of Native UI elements (iOS only) supported = { "portrait", "portraitUpsideDown" }, --table of allowed options for auto-orientation }, plugins = { ["plugin.OneSignal"] = { publisherId = "com.onesignal", }, ["plugin.notifications"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs" }, ["plugin.admob"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs" }, ["CoronaProvider.native.popup.social"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs" }, }, iphone = { xcassets = "Images.xcassets", plist = { NSCalendarsUsageDescription = "Testing", NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription = "Testing", NSCameraUsageDescription = "Testing", UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend = true, NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription = "This app would like to access the photo library.", NSAppTransportSecurity = { NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = true }, }, }, android = { versionCode = "59", usesPermissions = { "android.permission.READ\_EXTERNAL\_STORAGE", "android.permission.INTERNET", "android.permission.WRITE\_EXTERNAL\_STORAGE", "android.permission.ACCESS\_NETWORK\_STATE", "android.permission.RECEIVE\_BOOT\_COMPLETED" }, applicationChildElements = { [[\<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION\_ID" android:value="ca-app-pub-1037775853870492~8983822080"/\>]], } }, }
#8

I guess this is still an issue.  I got this warning today as well. 

#9

I got this too when my app was approved for live release. Was asked to learn more from https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/03/changes-to-google-play-developer-api.html

Ben.

#10

Any update on this?

#11

We have not found anywhere that this impacts Corona. No one is getting rejected. But I took a deeper dive on the docs and this is not an Android App API, like Google Play Services, GPGS, Firebase etc. This is an API where you can use API calls to manage the Google Play Developer Portal. You can make API calls to create new apps in Google Play, update Meta-data, add new API’s to their dashboard. This is something that you might do if you were doing CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) using something like Jenkins where you can publish your apps to Google Play via an API.

It’s appears it’s not something Corona uses in any fashion.

Rob