Google Play: We found Ad SDKs in your application

Question

Google has put a new option on their Pricing and Distribution page of their Google Play Developer Console that requires publishers to declare if they have ads or not. Our ap

Answer 1

You can run gradlew -q dependencies app:dependencies to see a the dependencies (including all transitive dependencies) for each of your configurations.

You can also specify a single configuration, such as with --configuration releaseCompile

In your case, you will find that Google Play Services includes a transitive dependency on AdMob.

You can mitigate this by using only individual components of Play Services (such as play-services-location) instead of the entirety of Play Services. However, you may find that one of the individual components you use still relies on AdMob. For example, version 8.1.0 of play-services-analytics has a transitive dependency on play-services-ads, which is the AdMob SDK.