Will Google Play Store accept self signed certificate apps?

Question

I am a newbie developing an Android app. It implements a socket connection and has to bypass or allow all host for it to work with our self-signed certificate installed on a server. I heard that google play store doesn't accept this kind of connection in the published app. Is it true? Or there is another way to do it? Thank you.

Answer 1

and had to bypass or allow all host in order to work with our self-signed certificate installed on server

That was not a particularly good move, from the standpoint of security.

I heard that google play store doesnt accept this kind of connection in the published app

The Play Store has implemented a ban on apps that bypass SSL validity checking and blindly accept all incoming SSL certificates.

Or there is another way to do it ?

Android 7.0+ has support for self-signed certificates . I backported that code to work on Android 4.2+. There are other libraries that offer self-signed certificate support, such as this one . There have been articles written on using self-signed certificates .