I've an Android app that is suddenly no longer available from Google Play. There was no recent release of a new APK, and the app's Release dashboard says the latest APK is 100% rolled out.
Also, the App Availability flag is "Publish".
Does anyone know what's causing this ?
EDIT: on the app's Google console page, I see a Security alert:
Your app contains unsafe cryptographic encryption patterns. Please see this Google Help Center article for details.
Could this be a reason for Google to remove the app, even after the APK went Live ?
It seems there is a problem on Google's end this morning.
I have been experiencing similar issues this morning. Our developer portal showed all apps as published and I hadn't released any updates for several months. However, none of my users could find the app when searching the Play Store and you would see an error when you tried to access it (via direct link). I did not get any emails, alerts, notifications, or security warnings. It seemed like the app had just vanished.
My guess is that there is some kind of outage or issue on Google's end. Many developers have reported similar behavior this morning.
I solved this problem by going to the Play Store Console and changing a line in my app description and submitting. I just added one period and clicked submit update and now it feels like everything has gone back to normal. You could give that a try and hopefully that helps. I am still unsure why this happened in the first place and I cannot find any news or announcements from Google.