Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks Nikolay the Google Play services seems half implemented to me :-( I'm already asking for the Google Play permission, I don't really want to also be asking for AccountManager access just to find out some kind of identity for the person that has purchased the item. I don't even need a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nikolay the Google Play services seems half implemented to me :-( AFAIK, it is not available yet, are you referring to the docs? https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-services/ I'm

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread William Ferguson
the Google Play services seems half implemented to me :-( AFAIK, it is not available yet, are you referring to the docs? https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-services/ No. Perhaps I misunderstood one of the GoogleIO sessions. They were referring to in-app billing and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: the Google Play services seems half implemented to me :-( AFAIK, it is not available yet, are you referring to the docs? https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-services/ No. Perhaps I

[android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread William Ferguson
Surely someone has dealt with this issue before .. On Friday, August 24, 2012 2:49:38 PM UTC+10, William Ferguson wrote: I asked this question on StackOverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12015303/what-user-identity-should-be-used-to-collate-in-app-purchases-from-google-play ) a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:36 AM, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: Surely someone has dealt with this issue before .. You can use the AccountManager and get the first 'google.com' account, but that needs additional permissions, and might not be 100% accurate because the Play

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread William Ferguson
On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:10:41 AM UTC+10, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: You can use the AccountManager and get the first 'google.com' account, but that needs additional permissions, and might not be 100% accurate because the Play client now supports switching accounts. Yep, that's

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:53 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:10:41 AM UTC+10, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: If you are authenticating to App Engine you can use the Users to get the current account as well. I *will* be authenticating to