[Android] Question about InApp donations removal

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello,

The issue is that there used to be a .aidl file one could use for this. Now, it cannot work, but you are using the Play Store SDK, which is not open source compatible.

Any great idea is welcome.

jb

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, at 09:43, Sharaf Zaman wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I’m a developer for an Open-source painting application Krita. Which I ported to
> Android and it has been in Open testing for a while now.
>
> Within the Android version, we have a banner and link to purchase a banner using
> in-app billing which supports the development. We added a banner (currently
> non-consumable) to meet the requirements of Google Play.
>
> I’ve noticed that VLC used to have a donation button for in-app donations, but I
> noticed that it has been removed due to the inability to upload the new release
> to Google Play?
>
> My question is, was it not possible to upload the APK to google play because of
> some policy of how the billing is supposed to be used or because VLC uses a fork
> of the version (which maybe they said is outdated)?
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sharaf Zaman
>
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