New Google policy

[Addo]

I have received an email from Google related to the usage of package manager I guess.

Here is a brief,

Developers need to request permission for their app to view what other apps are installed on a user’s device. You’ll be able to request a new “QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES" permission for “Package (App) Visibility” in the Play Developer Console as early as July.

Should I take care of this And add such permission in the Manifest?

 

[JohnC]

Is one of the functions of your app to discover what other apps are installed on the users device?

If not, then you should add a "RemovePermission[permission]" in the manifest so that your APK will no longer indicate it will try to do that function so it will then pass google's scan.

However, if your app is designed to discover what apps the user has installed, then this warning is saying is that you will need to apply for special "google" permission for your app to do that using the playstore dev console (not from the manifest)