One of the essential things of custom OEM skins like MIUI and ColorOS is a built-in call recorder. It is also available in Google Pixel phones, incorporated into the phone application. But because of regional laws, it is not available on Android phones. But if your phone does not have this functionality,
you can install any third-party application from the Google Play Store to get your work done. Unfortunately, in the coming days, there will be a change in Google Play Policy which will close all third party call recording applications once and for all.
In recent years Google has dejected call recording on Android phones. With Android 6.0, Google slew official call recording API that facilitates developers easily use the call recording function in their application. This prompted the application developers to search for some unofficial ways to allow call recording. Again Google close some of the workarounds in Android 9.0. In Android 10, the company wholly blocked call recording using a microphone.
For the last option, developers use the Android accessibility service to offer call recording on those devices that run Android 10 and above that. Unfortunately, Google has announced that it will not allow third-party applications to use accessibility API for call audio recording, thus ending the third-party call recording apps. This is going to be implemented from May 11.
In a recent webinar, Google clarified that this change would only impact third-party apps. For example, during the call audio recording, the person on the other end remains unaware that the recording is taking place. So, suppose that app is the default dialer on the phone and is also pre-loaded. In that case, accessibility ability is not needed to access the incoming audio stream and thus would not be in violation. As this elucidates the current policy, the new language is applicable for all applications starting on May 11.
Google has not clarified how it aims to implement this policy change. It is also not clear if Google will remove all third-party apps that do not comply with the changing policy from Play Store after May 11.