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

I checked Firebase support agent for this issue. Firebase libraries are using install_referrer, and I got below response from Firebase support agent:

This is a great catch. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm currently in discussion with our Analytics experts and will get back within 48 hours, or as soon as I have more information. For now, no need for any action from your end, wait for the next update from the Firebase team.

I believe we need to wait Firebase's next release. And Firebase team updates these packages to use the new API.

If you have used this API in your code by yourself, then you need to change it immediately as you are not depending on firebase or any other third party library provider.