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I am looking to release two version of my app: free and paid. The paid app will have a few more functions but no extra content as such. Originally I was going to release two separate apps on the market but it is proving difficult to keep a single code base and have two separate apps.
Would in-app purchases be a better way to do this? So I release a free app and then allow users to purchase a unlock for the extra functions. This would also mean that I wouldn't have to explicitly use the licensing part of the Android development as that is taken care of within the in-app purchasing.
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If you’re planning to use in-app purchases in iOS, you need to have an Apple developer account. This can be your own personal Apple account or as part of a team. The app we’re going to build is a subscription-based app. Basically, the user has to subscribe using in-app purchases to unlock a paid feature of the app.
When users pay once for a non-consumable product (like unlocking all maps in our demo app), they should never be asked to pay for it again. However, they should be able to get their purchase back when they install the app on a different device or when they re-install on the same one.
As you understand, making purchases is an asynchronous process just like fetching the products information from the App Store. The outcome of a transaction should always become absolutely clear to users, regardless of whether it was successful or not.
The getProducts (withHandler:) method is a quite important one, and even though it’s small, it contains vital steps for making in-app purchases possible. Here it is all together: // products on the App Store is finished. // Initialize a product request. // Set self as the its delegate. // Make the request.
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You could also use two separate flavors. One for the free version and the other for the paid version. Without rewriting another boss project.
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants.html
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