Joshua Lency

App Store and Play Console Submission Specialist

TIDAL • Freelance

Mar 2026 - Apr 2026 • 1 mo

I get mobile apps through store review and back on sale after a rejection, suspension or removal. PUBLISHING - Full submission to Google Play and the Apple App Store, from signing and build configuration through to the live listing - Play Console setup: Data Safety form, permission declarations, content rating, privacy policy and store listing - App Store Connect setup: App Privacy details, review notes and working demo credentials for the reviewer - Closed testing setup for new personal developer accounts that need it before production access REJECTIONS AND POLICY ISSUES - Reading the rejection notice properly to find the real cause, which is often not the one the buyer assumes - Guideline 2.1 completeness failures: crashes during review, placeholder content, dead demo logins - Privacy rejections, including missing in-app account deletion and inaccurate privacy disclosures - Metadata and screenshot mismatches - Google Play policy violations and the resubmission that follows - Writing the reply to App Review or the Play policy team when an appeal is the right move What I have learned doing this is that approval is never guaranteed and anyone promising it is selling something. The job is to fix the stated reason correctly, submit clean, and be honest with the owner about which rejections are fixable and which are not.

Mobile App Developer

Ghetch • Freelance

Apr 2025 - Jun 2025 • 2 mos

I build and maintain mobile apps for Android and iOS, working directly with the people who own them rather than through an agency. BUILDING FROM SCRATCH - Taking a project from an empty repository to a signed, store-ready release build - Firebase integration for authentication, data storage and push notifications - API and backend integration, including the error, timeout and offline cases that get skipped - UI work across different screen sizes and older devices FIXING EXISTING APPS - Taking over code written by someone else, reading it properly before changing anything - Reproducing and fixing crashes, including release-build-only crashes that never appear in debug - Push notification failures across Firebase Cloud Messaging and APNs - Performance problems: slow cold start, dropped frames, apps that feel heavy on mid-range phones - Upgrading apps stuck several SDK or framework versions behind so they build on current toolchains Most of what reaches me is an app that already exists and has stopped behaving. That has made me quick at reading unfamiliar code and finding the actual cause instead of patching the symptom. Stacks I work in: [Flutter / React Native / Kotlin / Java / Swift - delete whichever do not apply]