install_referrer intent deprecation

Question

I have received email from google:

We recently announced that we’ll be deprecating the install_referrer intent broadcast mechanism. Because one or mor

Answer 1

After checking the manifest file on my builded apk, i found the install refeer broadcast used by the firebase-measurement-connector module on Firebase Core Analytics so i exclude them :

 implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:17.2.0')
{
    exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-core'
    exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-analytics'
    exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-measurement-connector'
}

And then recheck again my manifest mereged file by Analyzing APk and the Install refeer broadcast is disappeared.

On other side, if you use track analytics, Google ask to switch to the Install Referrer API https://developer.android.com/google/play/installreferrer/library.html before March 2020