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I'm trying to understand the Google Play app review process. When an app is rejected you only get a list of generic vague possible reasons your app can be rejected, but nothing specific to your app, leaving you to guess at the reason and resubmit with random changes.
Anyone know how this process works? It seems they can reject an app for something that 1000s of apps that were approved have?
Their reason was: "During review, we found that your app, violates our Metadata policy" https://play.google.com/about/storelisting-promotional/metadata/
Which lists several possible issues, could be an issue with the description text, or the logo, or one of the screen shots. You are left to guess, and attempt to resubmit. But they warn "repeated violations can result in the suspension of this app or your Google Play Developer account". So if you guess wrong and resubmit your account can potentially be suspended...
It was a pretty tame app, no crazy SEO keywords stuff, or offensive or adult content.
Sorry for asking this question here, anyone know if stack exchange has a better place to ask such questions?
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Standard publishing: Updates to existing apps are processed and published as soon as possible. By default, your app will use standard publishing. Certain apps may be subject to extended reviews, which may result in review times of up to 7 days or longer in exceptional cases.
Google Play Store only accepts high-quality apps that meet their expectations. On an average app is approved by Play Store in 2-7 days. It is according to the latest play store update. And they have even mentioned that the complex apps may take longer than 7 days to get approved.
The company is combining the use of automated tools — which scan apps for viruses and other obvious Google Play no-nos — with human reviewers who jump in when the system flags something unusual. "Whatever the machines can catch today, the machines do.
So my solution was to remove all of the app screen shots and resubmit. It went through, so I assume it was one of the screen shots, even though I used almost the identical screen shot on other apps and they had no issues.
One of the screen shots had a woman in a bathing suite, So I assume this was the cause. Pretty insane that Google does not let woman wear bathing suites anymore.
My guess as to Google's process is,
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