I just found out that my Google Play Services are adding into merged manifest AD permission and for that reason I cant upload app to my playstore because it requires reasoning why I want ads in my app (I don't).
These are my gradle libraries:
//Google SDK
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.6.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:20.3.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:20.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:18.1.0'
implementation 'com.google.maps.android:android-maps-utils:2.0.3'
//GCM for internet connection monitoring
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:17.0.0'
//GooglePay
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wallet:19.1.0'
//Google Firebase SDK - Crashlytics, Firebase Messaging
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:21.1.1'
implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics:18.2.13') {
transitive = true
}
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:23.0.8'
This is merged manifest:
It seems like its google analytics (firebase). But I don't want and don't use any ad content in my app so I don't understand why is Google adding this stuff into my app without my approval.
I just tried to do this:
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:21.1.1' {
exclude module: "play-services-ads-identifier"
exclude module: "play-services-measurement"
exclude module: "play-services-measurement-sdk"
}
as I found out but its not even compiling (got GradleScriptException):
Caused by: org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject$CustomMessageMissingMethodException: Could not find method com.google.firebase:firebase-core:21.1.1() for arguments [build_ballt3q1t2mmz35mzah3ugy17$_run_closure2$_closure23@69dcec81] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler
