External links: display them again if device is in US region

Author: UweTrottmann

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Releases marked with 🧪 (or previously with the "beta" suffix) were released o
 
 ### 2025.2.13 - 2025-10-30
 
+* 🔧 Thanks to a United States court ordered injunction in the Google Play Antitrust case coming
+  into effect, again display links to TMDB, Trakt and other external websites if your device region
+  is set to "United States". Note that links remain displayed for devices set to a region in the
+  European Economic Area. For all other regions, Google Play Payments policy continues to disallow
+  this.
 * 🔧 On Android 16 on Samsung devices, increase the limit of widget items back to 100.
 
 ### 2025.2.12 - 2025-09-19

app/src/main/java/com/battlelancer/seriesguide/SgAppContainer.kt

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ package com.battlelancer.seriesguide
 import android.content.Context
 import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.diagnostics.DebugLogBuffer
 import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.util.PackageTools
+import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.util.PackageTools.isEuropeanEconomicArea
+import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.util.PackageTools.isUnitedStates
 import timber.log.Timber
 
 class SgAppContainer(context: Context) {
@@ -18,9 +20,20 @@ class SgAppContainer(context: Context) {
      */
     val preventExternalLinks by lazy {
         val installedByPlay = PackageTools.wasInstalledByPlayStore(context)
-        val isDeviceInEEA = PackageTools.isDeviceInEEA(context)
-        (installedByPlay && !isDeviceInEEA)
-            .also { Timber.d("preventExternalLinks = %s", it) }
+        val region = PackageTools.getDeviceRegion(context)
+        val isEEA = region.isEuropeanEconomicArea(context)
+        val isUS = region.isUnitedStates()
+        (installedByPlay && !isEEA && !isUS)
+            .also {
+                Timber.i(
+                    "preventExternalLinks=%s installedByPlay=%s region=%s isEEA=%s isUS=%s",
+                    installedByPlay,
+                    it,
+                    region.code,
+                    isEEA,
+                    isUS
+                )
+            }
 //            .let { if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) true else it }
     }
 

app/src/main/java/com/battlelancer/seriesguide/util/PackageTools.kt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.R
 import com.battlelancer.seriesguide.provider.SgRoomDatabase
 import com.uwetrottmann.androidutils.AndroidUtils
 import timber.log.Timber
+import java.util.Locale
 
 /**
  * Helpers that work with [PackageManager].
@@ -119,15 +120,30 @@ object PackageTools {
         }.also { Timber.d("installingPackageName = '%s'", it) }
     }
 
-    fun isDeviceInEEA(context: Context): Boolean {
-        @Suppress("DEPRECATION")
-        val region = context.resources.configuration.locale.country
-        return if (region.isEmpty()) {
+    @JvmInline
+    value class DeviceRegion(val code: String)
+
+    fun getDeviceRegion(context: Context): DeviceRegion {
+        val region = if (AndroidUtils.isNougatOrHigher) {
+            context.resources.configuration.locales[0].country
+        } else {
+            @Suppress("DEPRECATION")
+            context.resources.configuration.locale.country
+        }
+        return DeviceRegion(region)
+    }
+
+    fun DeviceRegion.isEuropeanEconomicArea(context: Context): Boolean {
+        return if (code.isEmpty()) {
             false
         } else {
             val eeaRegions = context.resources.getStringArray(R.array.eea_regions)
-            eeaRegions.contains(region)
-        }.also { Timber.d("region = '%s', isEEA = %s", region, it) }
+            eeaRegions.contains(code)
+        }
+    }
+
+    fun DeviceRegion.isUnitedStates() : Boolean {
+        return code == Locale.US.country
     }
 
 }