Our Wear OS app not listed on the Google Play

Question

So we have an issue with our Wear OS app. Recently we got an email from Google that our app is removed from the Play Store because of quote:

your app is not compatible with Watch/Wear OS devices due to a conflict in your app’s manifest with the following features: android.hardware.location.network, android.hardware.screen.landscape, and android.hardware.screen.portrait.

But there is no uses-feature related to landscape or portrait in our AndroidManifest, neither in Merged Manifest.

Here is what we have in our AndroidManifest:

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.type.watch" />
<uses-feature
        android:name="android.hardware.location.network"
        android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
        android:name="android.hardware.location"
        android:required="false" />

Any help is more than welcome. Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know the definitive answer, but are you sure you need the two location uses-feature manifest entries?

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/39603347/1542667

Is there some device you want to filter out, rather than assuming most Wear OS devices will have some form of location available (GPS or network).