Google Play Billing – Betide Studio

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Google Play Billing is only supported on Android platform.

1. Packaging an App bundle for Play Console

Before setting up the Play Console, we need to build an App Bundle, this is an one time process

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Please follow the steps to Setup Keystore for Android from Authentication → Methods → Google Play Games before following these steps. But you don't need the SHA1 for setting up Billing.

Go to your Project Settings → EOS Integration Kit then tick Enable Google Play Billing
Go to Project Settings → Android, and under App Bundles, tick Generate bundle (AAB)

Suggested API levels are: SDK Levels

Close Project Settings
Now package your project for Android to get the AAB

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Before packaging, make sure to set Android Package Name in Project Settings → Android to what you want in your Play Console, this cannot be changed in the future.

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Make sure Enable Google Play Billing is ticked in Project Settings → EOS Integration Kit before Packaging

2. Settings up License Testing

Now, open your Play Console. To test Play Billing purchases, you need to setup License Testing on your Play Console:

Go back to your main Play Console account dashboard where you see all the apps
Click on Settings
Go to License Testing
Create an email list if you don't have one
Name the list anything you want (e.g. MyList) and add one or more of your email addresses
Select the email list
Set License response to RESPOND_NORMALLY
Click Save changes

2. Setting up Google Play Console Testing

As of now, we need to setup a Test Release in order for Billing to work. Follow these steps to setup a Test Release:

Create a new App on your Console (if you don't already have one)
Go to Monitor and improve → Policy and programs → App Content
There, put a link to your Game's Privacy Policy, and click Save
Now, go to Test and Release → Testing → Internal Testing
Go to Testers tab, then select the email list you selected for License Testing
Click Save
Then go back to Releases tab, then click Create new release
Enter any release name you want
Upload the aab file we built before, then wait for it to upload and optimize
Click Next, then click Save and publish
After the Internal Testing release has been published, go to the Testers tab in Internal Testing, and copy your test link
Open the copied link on your Android device, then click Accept Invite

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Make sure you're signed into one of the testing accounts that you entered in the list that we created in Section 2 step 5

3. Setting up In-app purchases

In sections 3 and 4, we'll be focusing on these menus: Monetize with Play

Open your App's dashboard again
Go to Monetize with Play → In-app products
Click Create product
Enter an unique Product ID, this will be used as an input to our Blueprint code in future
Fill out the rest, and click Save, then click Activate

4. Setting up Subscriptions

Go to Monetize with Play → Subscriptions
Click Create subscription
Enter an unique Product ID, this will be used as an input to our Blueprint code in future
Enter the Subscription's Name, then click Create
Click Add base plan, Enter an unique Base plan ID, this can be optionally used in our Blueprint code if needed
Select all or needed Country / region, then click Set price, set your price and click Update, then click Save
Activate the subscription by clicking Activate