[Android] Question about InApp donations removal

[Sharaf Zaman]

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Hello!

Yes, that's what I thought.. Sadly, I don't have any ideas to workaround
this which doesn't involve using the Play Billing API. :(

"Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <jb at videolan.org> writes:

> 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 of the version (which maybe they said is outdated)?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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Kind Regards,
Sharaf Zaman
https://www.sh-zam.com