Android in-app purchases

Godot offers a first-party GodotGooglePlayBilling Android plugin since Godot 3.2.2. The new plugin uses the Google Play Billing library instead of the now deprecated AIDL IAP implementation.

If you learn better by looking at an example, you can find the demo project here.

Migrating from Godot 3.2.1 and lower (GodotPaymentsV3)

The new GodotGooglePlayBilling API is not compatible with its predecessor GodotPaymentsV3.

Changes

• You need to enable the Custom Build option in your Android export settings and install the GodotGooglePlayBilling plugin manually (see below for details)

• All purchases have to be acknowledged by your app. This is a requirement from Google. Purchases that are not acknowledged by your app will be refunded.

• Support for subscriptions

• Signals (no polling or callback objects)

Usage

Getting started

If not already done, make sure you have enabled and successfully set up Android Custom Builds. Grab the``GodotGooglePlayBilling`` plugin binary and config from the releases page and put both into res://android/plugins. The plugin should now show up in the Android export settings, where you can enable it.

Getting started

To use the GodotGooglePlayBilling API you first have to get the GodotGooglePlayBilling singleton and start the connection:

var payment
func _ready():
    if Engine.has_singleton("GodotGooglePlayBilling"):
        payment = Engine.get_singleton("GodotGooglePlayBilling")
        # These are all signals supported by the API
        # You can drop some of these based on your needs
        payment.connect("connected", self, "_on_connected") # No params
        payment.connect("disconnected", self, "_on_disconnected") # No params
        payment.connect("connect_error", self, "_on_connect_error") # Response ID (int), Debug message (string)
        payment.connect("purchases_updated", self, "_on_purchases_updated") # Purchases (Dictionary[])
        payment.connect("purchase_error", self, "_on_purchase_error") # Response ID (int), Debug message (string)
        payment.connect("sku_details_query_completed", self, "_on_sku_details_query_completed") # SKUs (Dictionary[])
        payment.connect("sku_details_query_error", self, "_on_sku_details_query_error") # Response ID (int), Debug message (string), Queried SKUs (string[])
        payment.connect("purchase_acknowledged", self, "_on_purchase_acknowledged") # Purchase token (string)
        payment.connect("purchase_acknowledgement_error", self, "_on_purchase_acknowledgement_error") # Response ID (int), Debug message (string), Purchase token (string)
        payment.connect("purchase_consumed", self, "_on_purchase_consumed") # Purchase token (string)
        payment.connect("purchase_consumption_error", self, "_on_purchase_consumption_error") # Response ID (int), Debug message (string), Purchase token (string)
        payment.startConnection()
    else:
        print("Android IAP support is not enabled. Make sure you have enabled 'Custom Build' and the GodotGooglePlayBilling plugin in your Android export settings! IAP will not work.")

All API methods only work if the API is connected. You can use payment.isReady() to check the connection status.

Querying available items

As soon as the API is connected, you can query SKUs using querySkuDetails.

Full example:

func _on_connected():
  payment.querySkuDetails(["my_iap_item"], "inapp") # "subs" for subscriptions
func _on_sku_details_query_completed(sku_details):
  for available_sku in sku_details:
    print(available_sku)

Purchase an item

To initiate the purchase flow for an item, call purchase. You must query the SKU details for an item before you can initiate the purchase flow for it.

payment.purchase("my_iap_item")

Check if the user purchased an item

To get all purchases, call queryPurchases. Unlike most of the other functions, queryPurchases is a synchronous operation and returns a Dictionary with a status code and either an array of purchases or an error message.

Full example:

var query = payment.queryPurchases("inapp") # Or "subs" for subscriptions
if query.status == OK:
    for purchase in query.purchases:
        if purchase.sku == "my_iap_item":
            premium = true # Entitle the user to the content they bought
            if !purchase.is_acknowledged:
                payment.acknowledgePurchase(purchase.purchase_token)

Consumables

If your in-app item is not a one-time purchase but a consumable item (e.g. coins) which can be purchased multiple times, you can consume an item by calling consumePurchase with a purchase token. Call queryPurchases to get the purchase token. Calling consumePurchase automatically acknowledges a purchase.

var query = payment.queryPurchases("inapp") # Or "subs" for subscriptions
if query.status == OK:
    for purchase in query.purchases:
        if purchase.sku == "my_consumable_iap_item":
            if !purchase.is_acknowledged:
                payment.consumePurchase(purchase.purchase_token)
                # Check the _on_purchase_consumed callback and give the user what they bought

Subscriptions

Subscriptions don’t work much different from regular in-app items. Just use "subs" as second argument to querySkuDetails to get subscription details. Check is_auto_renewing in the results of queryPurchases() to see if a user has cancelled an auto-renewing subscription