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[Action Required] Switch to the Play Referrer API by March 1, 2020
I'm using Facebook in one of my Xamarin projects and recently got the email that follows:
[Action Required] Switch to the Play Referrer API by March 1, 2020
Hello Google Play Developer,
We recently announced that we’ll be deprecating the install_referrer intent broadcast mechanism. Because one or more of your apps uses this intent to track referrals, we wanted to ensure you make the switch before March 1, 2020. After this date, new versions of the Play Store app will no longer broadcast the install_referrer intent after app installs.
Action required
Migrate to the Play Install Referrer API to track your app installs for the following apps and/or games.
The email includes a link to this article: https://developer.android.com/google/play/installreferrer/library.html
I do not directly use the referrer API in my own code, but it seems that the Facebook libraries most likely do.
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/commit/4c0f57d60b226563b8607b3b39a9450359f327bc
It looks like facebook-core switched to this dependency in January. That commit first appears in the tag sdk-version-5.15.0.
As far as I can tell from looking around in this project, Xamarin is using the 5.11.X.
Will this project switch to 5.15.X sometime soon? Is it already there?
Hello, we recently got the same e-mail and just like @ryl, we aren't using the Referrer API directly but do have the Facebook SDK integrated.
Is it possible that the Xamarin team could release new bindings with the 5.15.x version of the native SDK?
It has been months with no word on this. Is anyone actively maintaining this project? Since it is under the Xamarin umbrella I thought it would have some steam behind it. I have no experience wrapping 3rd party libraries and would like some help, or even some acknowledgement so I have an idea of what to expect.