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For more than a year or so, Android developers with growing resentment observed an onslaught of multiple bugs in such popular SDKs as Admob and Firebase. Those bugs cause spikes in what is called ANR (application not responsible) type of crashes. They're caused by issues in the SDKs themselves, and because of that developers have no means to reduce impact. In a few cases which I personally faced, responsible support teams simply ignore bugs and do nothing about them. Some of them have already existed for 2+ years with no fix on the horizon.
On the other hand, Google Play ranking algorithm is very harsh towards apps that exhibit ANRs. Even the smallest spike in ANR rate dramatically reduces an app's visibility, performance, and as a result - revenue. So we have a situation, where Google punishes developers for the bugs that Google has created.
This post is an attempt to bring attention to this topic since we already tried everything else.
There are some links to related bugs, and support topics discussion.
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/2387
https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-unity/issues/1...
https://groups.google.com/g/google-admob-ads-sdk/c/eabu4XtJL...
For more than a year or so, Android developers with growing resentment observed an onslaught of multiple bugs in such popular SDKs as Admob and Firebase. Those bugs cause spikes in what is called ANR (application not responsible) type of crashes. They're caused by issues in the SDKs themselves, and because of that developers have no means to reduce impact. In a few cases which I personally faced, responsible support teams simply ignore bugs and do nothing about them. Some of them have already existed for 2+ years with no fix on the horizon.
On the other hand, Google Play ranking algorithm is very harsh towards apps that exhibit ANRs. Even the smallest spike in ANR rate dramatically reduces an app's visibility, performance, and as a result - revenue. So we have a situation, where Google punishes developers for the bugs that Google has created.
This post is an attempt to bring attention to this topic since we already tried everything else.
There are some links to related bugs, and support topics discussion.
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/2387
https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-unity/issues/1...
https://groups.google.com/g/google-admob-ads-sdk/c/eabu4XtJL...