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If you try to publish your app in any of the Chinese app stores, you will be required to add an SDK to your app that basically allows them (Chinese government)
by yalok 3y ago
If you try to publish your app in any of the Chinese app stores, you will be required to add an SDK to your app that basically allows them (Chinese government) to track user activity in your app.
This basically means that not only TikTok, but any app originating from China is mandated to have this tracking SDK integrated, and it's a much bigger problem than just a single app...
- shuckles 3y agoWhat are the Chinese app stores? Do you mean the China storefront of the Apple App Store or something else? Do you have any documentation about this?
- rajamaka 3y agoHuawei AppGallery, Tencent My App Store , XiaoMi MIUI App Store. Apple only have about a 17% market share in China.
- yalok 3y agoThere’s no explicit documentation. It’s just that if a non-Chinese company/individual will want to publish something there, they need to obtain a license. This license can’t be obtained so easily, so you would have to go through some publishing company like AppTutti. These companies require you to rebuild your app with their specific SDK, without which you just can’t publish the app. One can only guess what’s in that SDK… but from my other experiences, I’m pretty sure there’s some back channel. Here’s a quote from appinchina dot com: Currently, foreign companies are not allowed to directly publish their apps on Chinese Android app stores. This restriction does not apply to iOS or the Apple App Store in China. All foreign app companies must either have a Chinese entity or use an authorized local distributor to publish their mobile apps and games.