In-App Purchases for Cordova
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Author: Jean-Christophe Hoelt - hoelt@fovea.cc
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This plugin allows In-App Purchases to be made from Cordova and PhoneGap applications, on many platforms:
- Android
- iOS
- Windows
- Windows 10 Mobile
- Xbox One
It lets you handle in-app purchases on all platforms with a single codebase.
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-purchase [--variable BILLING_KEY="<BILLING_KEY>"]BILLING_KEY is only required for Android. Check here for details.
If the plugin cannot connect to the app store because it has no network connection, it will retry either periodically after a certain amount of time, or in case the device fires an 'online' event. In order for the 'online' event to be properly received in the Cordova application, the cordova-plugin-network-information plugin is required as well. Without it, this plugin will only be able to use the periodic check to determine if the device is back online.
See Setup iOS Applications and Setup Android Applications.
| ios | android | win 8 | win 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| consumables | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| non consumables | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| subscriptions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| restore purchases | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| receipt validations | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| downloadable content | ✅ |
- iOS version 6.0 or higher.
- Android version 2.2 (API level 8) or higher
- with Google Play client version 3.9.16 or higher
- Windows Store/Phone 8.1 or higher
- Xbox One
- and any platform supporting Microsoft's UWP
- Simple Non-Renewing Subscriptions
- The easiest way to integrate purchase into an app that only needs a non-renewing subscription.
If you don't know much about In-App Purchases, you'll find a good introduction on the subject here: In-App Purchase Guidelines. It's from Apple, but the exact same concepts apply to Android.
You probably want to start by installing the plugin into your project. This is documented in the Setup Guide
Once your project is setup properly, add the minimal initialization code in your project and check that it works. You'll find a Minimal Example Here.
Find a more Complete Example Here.
If you can't get things to work, go through the Troubleshooting Checklist.
You're all good? Time to read some more documentation. Hooray!
- Getting Started with In-App Purchase on iOS
- Read about the business models supported by In-App Purchase and the types of items you can sell in your app.
- In-App Purchase Configuration Guide for iTunes Connect
- Learn how to set up and manage In-App Purchases with iTunes Connect.
Jean-Christophe Hoelt, Author
Josef Fröhle, Support
- Guillaume Charhon, initial Android code
- Matt Kane, initial iOS code
- Mohammad Naghavi, original unification attempt
- Dave Alden @dpa99c (Apple-hosted IAPs for iOS)
For sponsoring most of JC's work on the plugin.
Ionic Framework Team (http://ionicframework.com/)
For sponsoring the UWP platform.- Maxwell C. Moore (MCM Consulting, LLC)
- Justin Noel @calendee
- Those guys
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