Not really, when you click on the "buy subscription", Android Market window would say something like: "Total value: 119.88, parceled in 12x 9.99".
Actually, in my opinion, most users would be frightened with the "119.88" and doesn't even want the subscription, but, you know how our clients are.. If they sell subscriptions to their magazines on the real world, they want to sell on the digital too... For now I'm playing the "Android Market forbids this model so I'm not doing it" card, but I sincerely doesn't know how long I can use that line.. On Nov 17, 6:30 pm, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Paulo Cesar <pueloce...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently, Android Market doesn't support In-App subscription. > > > Let's say you have a magazine, and want to by a subscription that will > > debt 9.99 every month until the user quits or the contract expires. > > Currently, this isn't possible using Android Market. > > > The problem is, I was researching about using other methods, but then > > I found the following page: > >http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html > > > "Developers charging for applications and downloads from Android > > Market must do so by using an authorized Payment Processor. Developers > > offering additional content, goods, or services for an application > > downloaded from Android Market must offer an authorized Payment > > Processor as the payment option." > > > In my interpretation, that clearly says that you cannot use PayPal or > > other method for subscription payment, yet, I just found an app, Zinio > > (https://market.android.com/details? > > id=com.zinio.mobile.android.reader) that uses PayPal for *every* In- > > App purchase. > > > So now I'm confused. Is Zinio just ignoring Android Market rules and > > getting away with that, or can I do the same? > > Lots of apps do this when they shouldn't, but I do believe it's > against the market rules. In general I'd be a bit weary of > applications that do what you describe, it's pretty frightening that > an app could charge you monthly without you knowing, especially since > apps don't really have a firmly trusted and associated author that can > be contacted to resolve if want to stop being charged. While it > sounds like your intentions are good, and you probably are a good > developer who has a legitimate purpose for this, there are many others > who would not :-). > > kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
