Tell HN: Google Play suspends new app for crashing
Background: I'm a web developer, but have a few popular apps (free, no ads) on the play store. I submitted a new app for review. It was rejected for crashing. I kept trying to fix, but due to being new to native development — and hitting issues with cached builds and proguard (I really shouldn't have enabled it!) — I wasn't able to fix before striking out.
I had no idea that multiple rejections would cause a suspension. Especially a clearly non-malicious re-submission.
The appeal was also denied. I followed up with an email 2 weeks ago. No reply.
Appeal rejection: https://gist.github.com/user-attachments/assets/00a5d371-1823-4f3e-8e56-7237a3e61f24
Bugs are inevitable. That an app would be suspended for a bug is funny, if it wasn't so kafkaesque. :)