Android Market In-App-Purchase: How to get the currency a user will pay in?

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janpio picture janpio · Feb 22, 2012 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

I have an Android app using In-App-Purchase that caters to an international audience, so I expect payments in different currencies. Of course I would like to show the items for purchase with the user's local currency, but I don't really know how.

Using the region or language of a user seems like a bad indicator, as the currency seems to depend on the region of the Market account the user is using and not on the device settings.

How can I find out which currency a user will pay in?

Thanks.

Answer

Christian García picture Christian García · Aug 1, 2014

As of IAB Version 3, the SKU details for the purchasable item include a formatted price, which includes the currency the user would pay in (the corresponding currency to their Google Play store):

enter image description here Some examples of values of price (not from a real SKU):

  • 3,99€
  • £2.99
  • $4.99

EDIT: I've updated the SKU details table, now including information about the price_currency_code field.

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