Programming Tutorials

  Few notifications trigger as much anxiety in an Android development team as the vague, generic rejection email from the Google Play Console:   "Issue: Broken Functionality." You have likely passed your internal QA. Your unit tests are green. You may have even run Firebase Test Lab. Yet, the reviewer claims your app crashed, showed a dead screen, or failed to log in. The rejection typically cites  "Policy: Minimum Functionality" , which states that apps must provide a stable, engaging, and responsive user experience. When Google rejects an app under this banner, it is rarely a logic error in your business core. Instead, it is almost always a failure to handle the specific, often antiquated, edge cases of the Google Play Review environment. This guide provides a root cause analysis of why these rejections happen and details the code-level architectural changes required to pass the review permanently. The Reviewer Environment: Why "It Works on My Machine" F...