On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ian Ni-Lewis <ile...@google.com> wrote: > I think you may be confusing the client-side helpers for Google Play > Services with the actual Google Play Services interface.
I am not, but sticking 'Google Play' in front of practically everything introduced lately sure is confusing. > GPS is a service > and it is accessed like any service, via either intents or AIDL. Billing v3 > is simple enough that it doesn't really need any further client-side help. > But we made a sample anyway, mostly because we realize that things like > service lifetimes and background threads are hard to get right. > Well, when the whole set of helper classes needed to use it nears 2000 lines, you have to wonder how simple it is. BTW, getting an OAuth token is not particularly hard either, but it gets its own helper library in Play Services. The point is that while the new interface is indeed simpler, you still need to include a bunch of *source code* (or write it yourself) into your project to start using it. > For those who are wondering if you should switch: the answer is probably > "yes." IABv2 turned out to be very, very easy to get wrong. V3 is pretty > easy to get right. There are a couple things that v3 doesn't support yet > (subscriptions, mostly) but if v3 covers your needs, you should use it. We still need to see how well it actually works. And then again, even if I wanted to use it, this is not possible at this moment because there is no way to get the per-package key for my existing apps, because it is only available in the V2 console, which doesn't support multi-APK apps. This will hopefully change soon. The whole thing might turn out to be great, but it sure doesn't feel finished right now. Which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. -- 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
