Icon Pusher App July 2025
Date: 26 July 2025
Category: Icon Pusher
Anyone using the IconPusher app may have noticed that there's not been an update recently, the main reason for this is Google being difficult.
So to explain this, a couple of years ago Google changed their policy with how developers can access app details. By default now, the app can only get permissions of the app itself and system apps. If we want to gain access to other installed apps, we now need to add in a new permission into the config to allow it.
With this change, every update to the app I've submitted has been rejected, requiring me to submit an appeal explaining why my app needs this permission to be enabled.
While annoying, it was generaaly fine, my updates still got published, although somewhat delayed.... until last year anyway.
The last update I tried to publish was rejected as usual, and I sent my appeal explaining why the permission to grant access to all apps was required.... then.... my appeal was rejected.
Apparently, the Icon Pusher app, with the sole function of accessing installed apps to submit to the site, doesn't qualify for needing the permission of accessing all the installed apps!
After sending multiple messages to Google, explaining why this permission is required, I gave up.
Soooo, I had been putting this off for ages, and I've recently received an email from Google threatening to delist the app if it's not updated.
Hopefully, I'll have more luck updating the app this time.
If not, I'll have to just start uploading releases for people to download.
