Test inapp purchase with debug key

Question

I'm trying to test inapp purchase, but every time when I deploy with eclipse (signed with the debug key), it says: "This version of the application is not configured for Market billing. Check the help center for more information." When I export a release version of the apk (signed with my private key), it's ok. My question is this: I have to export an apk, upload it to the device, to run a test? That's a LOT of time wasted, and I cannot run tests either. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You can buy the test product 'android.test.purchased' using a debug version. For a 'real' product, you need to sign with the release key and upload a draft version to market. To save time you should use the test product until you get your app working, and use the real product ID for final testing only. Check out the documentation for more details

Answer 2

Exporting signed APKs through ADT in Eclipse is indeed rather cumbersome. A much more effective build mechanism is to build debug or release versions through an Ant build script (see "Building and Running from the Command Line"). I have added some Ant targets to install those freshly built APKs immediately onto the attached device.

If you create a new project through android create project (see "Managing Projects from the Command Line"), you'll get a basic build.xml to get started with.