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Can you just publish an empty APK (after creating the project) up to all of them? Or is that not how this works?



no. this is another violation. Its called the "minimum functionality rule" https://play.google.com/about/spam-min-functionality/min-fun...


They probably lost the signing key along with the source code. Without the signing key, there's no way to update the app. Otherwise, they would simply upload an empty app with the same package name.


That's like the old trick sending a check for $0.0 to finaly get a computer to close an account with a sub cent negative balance.




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