{"id":9971,"date":"2022-07-27T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/play-store-blocks-a-childrens-diabetes-app-from-sending-messages\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:22:27","slug":"play-store-blocks-a-childrens-diabetes-app-from-sending-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/play-store-blocks-a-childrens-diabetes-app-from-sending-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Store Blocks A Children&#039;s Diabetes App From Sending Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Play Store blocked a UK-based children\u2019s diabetes app from sending alarm messages to parents, BBC reports.<br \/>\nCamAps FX is a mobile app that allows parents to monitor the health status of their children and see if they need insulin. The app was banned on the Play Store for two years because Google believed the ability to send texts is not a \u201ccore function.\u201d<br \/>\nHowever, the app is now backed on Play Store. But it needs to send text messages separately and not from the app itself. The app can also send alerts through Bluetooth, but the function only works with nearby devices.<br \/>\nAccording to the BBC, over 400,000 people in the UK have type 1 diabetes, and they need to take insulin. The parent company Camdiab is now using cloud services for sending texts, and they have to pay a fee for each message. The texts inform parents of children\u2019s glucose levels and tell them if any insulin injection is needed.<br \/>\nGoogle prevents a children\u2019s diabetes app from sending alarm messages to parents<br \/>\nAs per the Play Store rules, no app can send SMS messages to users. Of course, a device\u2019s designated text message apps are an exception. Due to this, CamAps FX was blocked from the Play Store, and Android users could download it only through the Amazon app store. The app is now back, but it has lost one of its core features.<br \/>\n\u201cQuite often, we see people with a young child on the app sending texts to two, three or four adults \u2013 to grandmas and others,\u201d Professor Roman Hovorka from Cambridge University told a BBC reporter.<br \/>\nThe app has been under development for 15 years at Cambridge University. It is one of the few apps recommended by the UK\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) for children and pregnant women.<br \/>\nThe conflict between the CamAps FX parent company and Google continues. Now, it\u2019s all on Google to either make an exception for the app or adhere to its app store rules.<br \/>\nThe post Play Store Blocks A Children&#8217;s Diabetes App From Sending Messages appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Play-Store-App-AH-1-600x338-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Play Store blocked a UK-based children\u2019s diabetes app from sending alarm messages to parents, BBC reports. CamAps FX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9972,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}