Move to Google Play Billing library

[ngrebenshikov]

AIDL is marked as deprecated - https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/api
It seems reasonable to be prepared.

[CaptainHug]

"Reminder: Starting on August 2, 2021, all new apps must use Billing Library version 3 or newer. By November 1, 2021, all updates to existing apps must use Billing Library version 3 or newer. Learn more."

https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/api

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/meet-google-play-billing-library.html

Note that Billing Library 3 gets deprecated sometime midway through 2022 as well.

[jgranick]

Has anyone tried this fork to see if it works? I see commits for updating the billing API

https://github.com/narenjo/extension-iap

[maaniv]

I am test the 'https://github.com/narenjo/extension-iap' extension. All works fine, but i am need to bump some versions:

    <android target-sdk-version="29" />
    <android minimum-sdk-version="21" />
    <android gradle-version="6.5.1" />
    <android gradle-plugin="4.1.0" />

Setting 'gradle-plugin' version don't work for me. Instead i am use template tag and manually set plugin version in build.gradle:

...
 classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'
...

[PaulGene]

Has anyone battle tested the narenjo fork live on GPlay?

I tried a different fork (almost identical) that had implemented Billing Library version 3 and pushed my game live on GPlay but it wasn't acknowledging purchases properly and every single purchase was auto refunded after a few days... and that build ended up with over half a million installs gulp

Maybe we need to do some extra steps to acknowledge purchases properly?

There is a new acknowledgePurchase function but not sure how / when to use it https://github.com/narenjo/extension-iap/blob/master/extension/iap/android/IAP.hx#L171-L188