[SOLVED] Violation of Device and Network Abuse policy

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Out of nowhere my app was briefly removed from Google Play with the reason Violation of Device and Network Abuse policy

Since it seems that I solved the situation rapidly I thought would be good to let a trace in case someone face the same problem some day.

  1. I googled the topic and it seems that it’s often linked with Youtube videos and background mode. In my app there aren’t any video but well don’t ask. So finally I landed on the following topic https://stackoverflow.com/a/39610794/5404186 and noticed that I didn’t used the option 'shouldPauseOnSuspend=yes' for the inAppBrowser (even if again I don’t use video and use the inAppBrowser to display the terms of use). Anyhow I had a look at the typescript definition and even there it’s stated that it might help in case of Google Play problem. So I build a new versions of my app where I set this option to yes

    /** (Android Only) Set to yes to make InAppBrowser WebView to pause/resume with the app to stop background audio (this may be required to avoid Google Play issues) */
shouldPauseOnSuspend?: 'yes' | 'no';

aka

     this.inAppBrowser.create('https://somewhere.com', '_blank', 'location=no,shouldPauseOnSuspend=yes');
  1. Since the 1. November is soonish there, I upgraded my targetSdkVersion from 23 to 26

Built a new version of my app, submitted, waited quite a bit and finally app was back in store

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As I said above, it was rapidly solved and open/closed this issue in case that would help someone in the future