Implementing In App purchases in Android?

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hpique picture hpique · Jan 7, 2010 · Viewed 51.6k times · Source

Edit: Android now supports in-app billing!

Original question:

It looks like Android won't natively support in-app purchases for a while, and when it does there might be a huge user base with devices that don't support them.

What's the best way to implement iPhone-like (additional content or services) in-app purchases in Android using the Android Market if possible?

The solution should consider in particular:

  • For all kinds of in-app purchases: Android Market's 24-hour cancellation policy
  • For consumables/non-consumables: storage of additional content (ie: use precious application memory to avoid piracy, or use SD card to avoid bloating application memory)

Thanks!

Answer

fernferret picture fernferret · Feb 3, 2011

This has changed as of today! There is now an example on the Android Developer site here: https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_overview

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