Android Play V3 Consuming a Purchase

Consuming a Purchase

You can use the In-app Billing Version 3 API to track the ownership of purchased in-app products in Google Play. Once an in-app product is purchased, it is considered to be "owned" and cannot be purchased from Google Play. You must send a consumption request for the in-app product before Google Play makes it available for purchase again.

Important: Managed in-app products are consumable, but subscriptions are not.

How you use the consumption mechanism in your app is up to you. Typically, you would implement consumption for in-app products with temporary benefits that users may want to purchase multiple times (for example, in-game currency or equipment). You would typically not want to implement consumption for in-app products that are purchased once and provide a permanent effect (for example, a premium upgrade).

To record a purchase consumption, send the consumePurchase method to the In-app Billing service and pass in the purchaseToken String value that identifies the purchase to be removed. The purchaseToken is part of the data returned in the INAPP_PURCHASE_DATA String by the Google Play service following a successful purchase request. In this example, you are recording the consumption of a product that is identified with the purchaseToken in thetoken variable.

int response = mService.consumePurchase(3, getPackageName(), token);

Warning: Do not call the consumePurchase method on the main thread. Calling this method triggers a network request which could block your main thread. Instead, create a separate thread and call the consumePurchasemethod from inside that thread.

It's your responsibility to control and track how the in-app product is provisioned to the user. For example, if the user purchased in-game currency, you should update the player's inventory with the amount of currency purchased.

Security Recommendation: You must send a consumption request before provisioning the benefit of the consumable in-app purchase to the user. Make sure that you have received a successful consumption response from Google Play before you provision the item.

Implementing Subscriptions

Launching a purchase flow for a subscription is similar to launching the purchase flow for a product, with the exception that the product type must be set to "subs". The purchase result is delivered to your Activity'sonActivityResult method, exactly as in the case of in-app products.

Bundle bundle = mService.getBuyIntent(3, "com.example.myapp",
   MY_SKU, "subs", developerPayload);

PendingIntent pendingIntent = bundle.getParcelable(RESPONSE_BUY_INTENT);
if (bundle.getInt(RESPONSE_CODE) == BILLING_RESPONSE_RESULT_OK) {
   // Start purchase flow (this brings up the Google Play UI).
   // Result will be delivered through onActivityResult().
   startIntentSenderForResult(pendingIntent, RC_BUY, new Intent(),
       Integer.valueOf(0), Integer.valueOf(0), Integer.valueOf(0));
}

To query for active subscriptions, use the getPurchases method, again with the product type parameter set to "subs".

Bundle activeSubs = mService.getPurchases(3, "com.example.myapp",
                   "subs", continueToken);

The call returns a Bundle with all the active subscriptions owned by the user. Once a subscription expires without renewal, it will no longer appear in the returned Bundle.