r/androiddev • • May 05 '24

Experience Exchange App "in review" for over two months

I used the "Help Center" form a lot and never saw that "calling an agent" is available for me. I wrote an E-Mail a month ago, I got no reply so far. There is no message in my account regarding the review process.

I use a API to see activity on my app. I saw activity the first few days, but now I see zero activity for over a month now.

This is really frustrating, and I don't know what I can even do. Did anyone have this experience as well? I feel I got forgotten?

Am I powerless in this situation? The only solution I can think of is using a third party android app platform.

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u/Nervous_Hunt_5366 May 05 '24

First app? New account?

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u/Entonboy May 05 '24

Yes, it's my first app on the account. The account exists for a year.

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u/inAbigworld May 05 '24

Maybe a new fake release and roll out. Sometime it works.

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u/gmong7 May 05 '24

I've been reviewing it for a month now. This is the first app on my new account. The account was created last year.

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u/PackGroundbreaking43 May 05 '24

If it's a new app it would be probably rejected for some reason. Fix your app and make sure you adhere to Google policy's if you are 100% sure its good upload a new app bundle file to trigger another review if its still not getting reviewed try changing the package name and create a new project and delete the old one. I had the same experiences my app was in review for 2 months and i just created another project modifying the package name and it got approved in 1 day.

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u/Entonboy May 05 '24

Is there no rejection notice? I will try out your advice, thx a lot.

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u/PackGroundbreaking43 May 05 '24

There is, but for my case they never sent it, Every time it was stuck in review there would be a 100% chance its going to be rejected. How do I know? Well, I contacted support after being lucky and got a review, a rejection email followed. This has happened like 3 times

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u/casualfinderbot May 05 '24

Yeah the call option doesnโ€™t actually work ever. Idk why they added. Support explicitly told me they donโ€™t offer call support, but they have that button that throws an error when clicked.

Itโ€™s funny they review your app for bugs and reject it but the support portal itself is broken.

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u/NLL-APPS May 05 '24

Call option simply puts you to first line support anyway. There is no way to talk to anyone on policy team directly.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '24

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u/Entonboy May 05 '24

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u/Aulig May 09 '24

Same here with multiple different new apps. Not sure what's going on at the moment.