Apple reject app if contains Google Map

[Fuad Nassar]

Our app uses a google map cn1 lib to display some of locations and all thing work as fine

 but when sent it to App Store preview we got this rejected message

"Guideline 4.0 - Design

We continue to find that your app's location feature is not integrated with the built-in mapping functionality, which limits users to a third-party maps app.

Next Steps

To resolve this issue, please revise your app to give users the option to launch the native Apple Maps app."

we don't have any feature to open google map app/website, just we use the latest version of google map cn1 lib.

[Dave Dyer]

Good luck with that.  Apple wouldn't approve my app until I removed the work "android" from the product description.
I'm sure this kind of BS will eventually be ruled illegal, but meantime apple rules.

[Shai Almog]

The problem isn't google maps. You can use that just fine.

The problem is the navigation code you have in your app which launches only Google Maps or Waze. It should support Apple Maps too. How did you implement navigation?

[Fuad Nassar]

yeah, I have this reject to another app but it fixed by deleting android mention in-app description

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 7:41 PM Dave Dyer <daved...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good luck with that.  Apple wouldn't approve my app until I removed the work "android" from the product description.
I'm sure this kind of BS will eventually be ruled illegal, but meantime apple rules.

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[Fuad Nassar]

this is the first page that will appear after user logging

and after a click on switch icon, it should appear this dialog for the first time

and if user click "Allow" then will show this page

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 8:17 AM Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

The problem isn't google maps. You can use that just fine.

The problem is the navigation code you have in your app which launches only Google Maps or Waze. It should support Apple Maps too. How did you implement navigation?

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[Fuad Nassar]

and this code was used to implement google map

            MapContainer map = new MapContainer();
            Container root = LayeredLayout.encloseIn(BorderLayout.center(map));
            addMarkers(res, map, "price_d");
            root.setScrollable(false);
            gui_Con_Map.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, root);
             map.zoom(initCoord, 12);
            map.setShowMyLocation(true);
            addFabListener(res, map);
  

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 8:17 AM Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

The problem isn't google maps. You can use that just fine.

The problem is the navigation code you have in your app which launches only Google Maps or Waze. It should support Apple Maps too. How did you implement navigation?

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[Shai Almog]

What do you do when clicking the Fab?

Do you navigate to the place?

If so that could be the problem.

I suggest explicitly asking the Apple reviewer for the reason with a proper description. Explicitly ask him if it's a problem that you're using Google Maps embedded or if he can circle the problematic feature in the app.