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Question about Google Playstore and requesting direct exemption from Power Management #8

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In the ReadMe.md, it is mentioned that "Google Play policies prohibit apps from requesting direct exemption from Power Management features in Android 6.0+ (Doze and App Standby) unless the core function of the app is adversely affected."

Me and my team believe that our app's core functionality is adversely affected and that we could request direct exemption from Power Management features. However, we would like to ask how we could make sure in advance that the Google Playstore would agree with us. We fear the chance of a misjudgment from our side or from Google which could lead to some sort of "punishment" from the Playstore.

We are aware that Android published a table with possible app examples which are allowed to request direct exemption: https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby#exemption-cases.
However, this is not a complete list and we came to the conclusion that we are a different type of exemption.

Therefore, we have the following questions and we would be happy for anyone who has production experience with react-native-battery-optimization-check and who would be willing to share their experience or send us a link to a source that answers our questions:

  1. Can we contact the Google Playstore in advance to discuss if they would agree with our opinion, namely that our application would be allowed to request direct exemption?

  2. If no, what would happen if we would simply request direct exemption from Power Management and then weeks later the Google Playstore comes to a different conclusion? Would we be kicked out of the Playstore (tyranically) immediatly or would we get a chance to justify our opinion?

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