Mobario - Compliant or Not ?!

[Mobario_Man]

@Android_Investigator

Hello Fellow Developers,

I have spent many days, nights and weeks investigating Mobario and these are my findings:

1. Mobario seems to be very similar in the technology to Facebook Messenger (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca) & other Floating apps (see examples: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=floating)

2. I believe that Google keeps track of every package and class in every APK on the Google Play Store. Therefore, when they decide to remove a certain package/SDK (e.g. PingJam), it makes it very easy to do so. No app can escape…

Although Mobario is threading thin water and remaining in a very gray area, it is my understang that at present, Mobario is Compliant.

If Mobario’s APK & SDK were not compliant, we would see more than just a handful of apps banned by claims that it is at Mobario’s fault, and their APK - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobario - would not be LIVE on the Google Play Store.

Further more, I have found hundreds of apps that have integrated Mobario’s technology by searching for “Mobario” or “On-Top-Widget”.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=mobario&c=apps
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=on-top-widget&c=apps

In regards to the apps that were banned, I read every single post, reply and cross referenced it with additional material and found that there were possibly additional reasons for their banning.

I hope this information helps and look forward to your replies.

Always here to Investigate :rolleyes:

Android Investigator

Hi @Android_Investigator,

Thank you very much for your post and clarification.
Mobario will continue to follow the rules that Google sets forth and serve our developers loyally.

I would like just to strengthen what you have mentioned and add the following:

1. According to the new and older policy, developers may change the system appearance if the user gave them their consent. Before Mobario enables its OnTopWidget we display to the user a video tutorial and afterwards we prompt them a EULA where they are asked if they want our product. We enable Mobario only after the user’s consent.

2. We do not drop icons or shortcuts on the user desktop to lead to commercial advertising. Rather we create a new floating layer that gives the user its content according to its preferences - so in reality we improve the user’s experience, which is the main objective of Mobario - enhance the mobile user’s experience.

3. The user knows at every moment the source app of our OnTopWidget, so the user can stop it easily when not wanted anymore.

Furthermore, Mobario will continue to develop its widget to remain compliant at all times and enhance the UI of the user.

Thank you again,
Mobario_Man