Jetpack libraries may only access the network as part of the library's advertised functionality or at the explicit request of the client as part of a documented API contract.

For example, an image loading library may download an image from the network as part of handling an API call to obtain a Bitmap from a URL. However, the image loading library must not report API usage metrics to a Google server because that is not required for image loading, nor is it behavior that the client explicitly asked for.

Jetpack libraries may only post notifications at the explicit request of the client as part of a documented API contract.

For example, the compat library may post notifications as the result of a client calling NotificationsCompat APIs. However, the compat library must not post notifications to advertise a feature in the library.

Jetpack libraries should do no logging (android.util.Log.v, android.util.Log.d, android.util.Log.i, System.out.println, etc) in production library code by default. All error states must be handled through standard error return methanisms like return codes and exceptions with detailed messages instead of relying on logging. Logging is easy to miss and hard to build around. A library may provide an optional API to enable debug logging when library has complex state management.