Google requirements for news apps
I am having yet another new problem publishing new builds of the app to the Google Play Store (#25 (closed)). This isn't a problem for pushing builds to expo.
Google now (this is a new policy since I last uploaded) requires apps that present themselves as "news apps" to submit a justification of their adherence to their news policy: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9949730
This policy applies to apps for individual news publishers, as well as apps like ours that aggregate news.
It's not clear to me from the policy whether we could just not list ourselves as a "news app" even though that would be true. For now I've sent the following text, and hopefully that will be good enough:
Renewal is an app used for research purposes only. The app itself is a news aggregator which displays news headlines from a variety of online publishers, aggregated by our custom news site crawler. The app falls within fair use restrictions: Full news content is not sent to the app by our backend; only headlines and short summaries. Users view the articles on their original websites (through a web view display element) and thus providing full attribution to their original sources.