Question Remove Dependency Android Resolver (Android Advertising ID AAID)

Hi,

As a 1st April 2022 Google's permissions changes. AAID is not supported on Families Policies for children apps. So I have to remove every dependency which could use it from my app.

I could add a meta tag on the Android's Manifest to disable Analytics for recollect AAID, but I think my main problem now is that firebase-unity library also installs this dependency: com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-identifier which seems to be causing the caution message about using AdMob on Play Console and is related for my app to not being accepted by google reviewer because it uses AAID.

My question here is: Is there a way to remove a single dependency from Android Resolver dependencies generated by the firebase-unity libraries installation?

I tried to remove it from AndroidResolverDependencies.xml but every time I make a build it's recreated.

Thanks!

 

Our team is experiencing a similar issue.

 

I haven't tried this but would love to give a try.
Are you planning to remove the library related files in the final executable?

One option I see from top of my mind is to
1. Add a script for post gradle processing
2. Remove the dependency listed in the final build.gradle file
3. Save it

But, The final linking of the build may fail if the library is being used. You can check this by just clicking the aar file in unity and disabling it in the inspector too for android platform.

 

Disabling AutoResolveOnBuild from External Dependency Resolver Settings I could prevent from recreating dependencies on AndroidResolverDependencies.xml. So far, I could remove com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-identifier from AndroidResolverDependencies.xml and when building there is not this dependency on the gradle file, but Google still rejecting the app.

I'm using these dependencies:

implementation(name: 'com.google.android.datatransport.transport-api-3.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.datatransport.transport-backend-cct-3.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.datatransport.transport-runtime-3.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-auth-16.0.1', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-auth-api-phone-17.4.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-auth-base-16.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-base-17.6.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-basement-17.6.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-cloud-messaging-17.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-api-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-base-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-impl-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-sdk-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-measurement-sdk-api-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-safetynet-17.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-stats-17.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.gms.play-services-tasks-17.2.1', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.android.play.core-1.10.3', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-abt-21.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-analytics-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-analytics-unity-8.8.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-app-unity-8.8.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-auth-21.0.1', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-auth-interop-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-auth-unity-8.8.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-common-20.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-components-17.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-config-21.0.1', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-config-unity-8.8.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-datatransport-18.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-encoders-json-18.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-iid-21.1.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-iid-interop-17.1.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-measurement-connector-19.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-messaging-23.0.0', ext:'aar')
implementation(name: 'com.google.firebase.firebase-messaging-unity-8.8.0', ext:'aar')


Someone knows if some of these could be using AAID?

Many Thanks!

 

Check once the final build.gradle for the final dependencies.
I see recently some plugins adding at the final step of android project building leading to lots of confusions and making debugging hard!

You can see the build.gradle files under Temp/gradleOut folder (recent unity versions seems to save in a diff path i guess) and check build.gradle under launcher and unityLibrary folder for the final dependencies.

 

These dependencies come from build.gradle under unityLibrary. There is no dependencies on build.gradle under launcher. I did check with android studio after exporting the project.

Thanks!!

 

I've got approved!! Google Systems where reading com.google.android.gms.play-services-ads-identifier on the proguard file because I had specifications for it. So I removed and got approved.

 

Ah! Thanks for sharing

 

Hi, I don't have the proguard file, but may I know how you add meta tag on the AndroidResolverDependencies.xml ? is it manually add into the xml from Android Studio?

 

If you disable AutoResolveOnBuild from External Dependency Resolver Settings, you can manually add and remove tags on AndroidResolverDependencies.xml. But if it is enabled the tags and dependencies are recreated automatically by Unity when building the app for Android.

 

Thank you !