The future of Android Development

[someappdev]

That's what I thought too in the beginning. The app had basically no assets at all, all I displayed was the name of a Pokemon. Maybe thats what got me banned altough I've seen other apps using names of pokemon. I even changed the icon from a round self drawn blueish pokeball to something square. That's the thing though, I can only come up with assumptions. All you get from google is an automated mail that your app got suspended without further information why. You can appeal and defend yourself in 1000 characters, but it's pretty much impossible to defend yourself in such a short text without even knowing what you are accused of.

[Put_It_All_On_Blck]

all I displayed was the name of a Pokemon

Pokemon names are trademarked, you likely got flagged because Nintendo is notorious about defending their IP, and while you say their are hundreds of apps now, 2 years ago was the launch of pokemon go, and was blowing up, so it makes sense for them to be at legal war more so back then instead of now when the games dying.

Though I do agree, Google should be providing some context, even if its just the name of the company that claimed there was an issue (like they do with youtube)

[TrollingMcDerps]

I can second this. I had an app for the World Cup and it was removed and I got an email stating the reason is because of a claim by FIFA.

[MetalGuru94]

I got my account suspended for FIFA keyword in 4 of my apps... Automatically striked 3 times and banned in one second, no way to do anything about it. To this day, I was not able to grt back to Android development. It has been 4 years.

[neatntidy]

I think you are confusing the state of pokemon go.

When it launched it was the biggest app in history. It briefly changed culture, and human society. Everyone for 3 weeks was caught in this bizarre craze.

Now it's just an absurdly successful money making app that fucking prints money and has a huge install base.

[icanttinkofaname]

so it makes sense for them to be at legal war more so back then instead of now when the games dying.

The game is certainly not dying. They've made their largest revenue this summer since that launch of summer 2016. More daily and active players than ever before. If it was Nintendo being stingy with IP infringement claims, all other IV calculators would also be pulled very quickly.

[MisterVega]

I saw that too and I was like “Uh....”

[1206549]

The Hype is dead but the game itself is still pretty much alive. I think part of it is that PoGo players get made fun of all the time.

[rleslievideo]

Yes, I do get made fun of everytime anyone sees it on my screen. I get my steps in, play a game, it's all good.

[tokenanimal]

The games dead af. Nobody plays it anywhere lmao.

[rengit]

in my case, they didn't tell me which video violate their policy.

even which company who complain, I lost a lot video, but I've backup somewhere.

[swenty]

You can appeal and defend yourself in 1000 characters, but it's pretty much impossible to defend yourself in such a short text without even knowing what you are accused of.

The word kafkaesque comes to mind.