SecurityException - GoogleCertificatesRslt: not allowed

This was an issue in Google Play services as confirmed from someone in dev relations. A fix was rolled out for this on 2nd Oct and we should see a decreasing trend for this as more devices auto update to the latest version(20.39.15).

If anyone still having this error using play-services-maps using MapView, not fragment implementation, you could try when initialise to add this code:

MapsInitializer.initialize(context, MapsInitializer.Renderer.LATEST, listener)

Google started to progressively update default render since June 2022 and this maybe could crash using MapsInitializer.Render.LEGACY. In my case, it does.

Annoying, but works. More details here.