Publishing your app

Introduction

Publishing your application to a store is an exciting step of the development journey. When submitting your application to the store you'll be asked about privacy and data collection practices. We'll guide you through the process on each platform. For the full list of what Vexo collects — and the consent requirements for session replay — see App Store & Play Compliance.

Publishing to Apple store

Apple requires you to fill out the App Privacy form when you submit your app to the App Store.

When using Vexo Analytics there are some items that must be checked when submitting your app.

Do you or your third-party partners collect any data from this app?

Select yes when asked if a third-party partner is collecting any data. As listed above, with Vexo you are tracking a lot of information out of the box.

Data types

Next, you'll be asked the data types you collect. For Vexo, select Product Interaction, Device ID, Crash Data, Performance Data and Other Diagnostic Data — plus User ID if your app calls identifyDevice(). These match the data types declared in the privacy manifest the SDK ships since 1.8.0.

You’ll then be asked to expand on how you use each data type. Select Analytics as the answer, and answer yes when asked if the data is linked to the user's identity.

Finally, they’ll explain their definition of what Tracking is and ask you to confirm if you track users. Apple only considers tracking when data is linked to a user’s identity and used for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes, which is not something we do at Vexo so you can select No.

Publishing to Google store

When submiting to the Google store you'll need to submit information about what your app tracks. Particularly you'll need to select specific options on Data collection and security and Data safety

Data collection and security

You'll be asked if your app collects or shares any of the required user data types and if that data is encrypted. You must select yes to both of them.

Data safety

Next you'll be asked about data safety. Make sure to select App interactions, Crash logs, Diagnostics and Device or other IDs — plus User IDs if your app calls identifyDevice(). Declare each as collected (not shared) and encrypted in transit; see App Store & Play Compliance for the full mapping.

And thats it! Once your app is approved you'll enjoy all the insights Vexo provides out of the box!