title: Android app got suspended on Google Play Store on first publish
body: <p>I'm trying to publish my Android app on the Google Play store, but it got suspended due to a policy violation, specifically:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Issue: Violation of Webviews and Affiliate Spam policy</strong><br>
    We don’t allow apps whose primary purpose is to drive affiliate traffic to a website or provide a webview of a website without permission from the website owner or administrator.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>A bit of information about my app:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>this is the first time I'm publishing the app, it was never published before</li>
  <li>i stated in the description that it is the official app for my website, also providing a link to it</li>
  <li>it's a hybrid app, built using Cordova and Angular, which I created from scratch forking my website's codebase and making some changes</li>
  <li>it is indeed a WebView, but the website's codebase has been completely repackaged into the app, and there's no direct link to the website</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So my questions are: where do you think the <em>actual root cause</em> of the issue is, and what would be the best course of action for me to have my app published? As far as I can see I have these options available:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><strong>Republish the app</strong> with a different package and app names, but if that gets suspended again, I'm worried about losing my developer account permanently</li>
  <li><strong>File an appeal</strong>, and provide proof of ownership of the website (if that's even the root cause), although they don't specify what kind of proof they might be looking for. I have a print of Google Search console domain verification, and several screenshot from my hosting dashboard on Firebase, but I wonder if that's acceptable proof of ownership</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thanks for any advice, I'm fairly new to publishing apps and I'm worried about doing it the wrong way, or worse, getting my account permanently deleted.</p>