Thanks! To be honest, I’m not sure what change, or series of changes, finally lead to the app getting approved. As for keeping the permissions that the app has, well, let’s just say, after reading too many posts about developers running into issues with these permissions, I’m surprised I have not yet had them revoked! For what it’s worth, I documented the fun times I went through to create this app at
https://medium.com/@mtc.dev/my-first-android-app-story-331c9....
Cheers!