In a post on its Android Developer’s blog today, the Android team has outlined how developers can begin testing the long awaited in-app purchasing system. It’s not yet ready for full launch – but developers are able to play with it now pending a full public launch next week.
Here’s a snippet from the announcement:
In preparation for the launch, we are opening up Android Market for upload and end-to-end testing of your apps that use In-app Billing. You can now upload your apps to the Developer Console, create a catalog of in-app products, and set prices for them. You can then set up accounts to test in-app purchases. During these test transactions, the In-app Billing service interacts with your app exactly as it will for actual users and live transactions.
Note that although you can upload apps during this test development phase, you won’t be able to actually publish the apps to users until the full launch of the service next week.
And this is what Android developers will see when testing the system.
So expect to be badgered endlessly for money via microtransactions when this launches next week. We suspect people will soon wish it didn’t exist.
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/ March 24, 2011I bet developers are happy to finally hear this.