Android gets in-app billing

Google is set to launch in-application billing for Android next week, and is encouraging developers to upload their billing-event-enabled apps now. The Android Marketplace has been talking about in-application billing for almost a year now, and yesterday the team finally opened the store to developer testing with a view to …

[Anonymous Coward]

bah....

the Amazon appstore is a joke.

it let me sign in with my amazon account, download the appstore app, set up a payment method which was compulsory even though it was a free app, then as soon as i tried to download a app, "appstore for android is not yet available in your region...

[Blubster]

@bah......

U.S. only at this stage. :o(

[Gene Cash]

Not only that

But I think the API is only available on 2.3, and most phones are barely 2.2. So unless you root your phone and install a later OS yourself...

ObOffTopic: got to play with the XOOM today, in the Verizon store. In the 3-4 minutes I had, I couldn't figure out the GUI... hmmm... that doesn't bode well.

[Atonnis]

Hmm...

Let's put together in-app billing with multitasking and a cleverly written app which just sets itself as a pixel in the background.

W00t! Cashorama, baby! Here comes the malware!