Android Subscription based Licensing

Question

Currently readying an app for release onto the marketplace. The big wigs want to charge a subscription for the app and this is proving troublesome to implement for android.

We don't want to do "99 cents buys the app forever" since there is an ongoing server usage for this app and so we want to charge a subscription.

Seems that Android Licensing Server doesn't support this - all that does is "did I buy this app or not" to help reduce piracy.

I also do not want to go down the route of having extra versions installed that act as the purchase. Otherwise the user would be buying an app every year.

Is there some solution I am missing ?

Answer 1

Google play now supports subscription billing with auto-renew.

Check out the documentation here