{"id":294,"date":"2019-02-12T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonbuspal.co.uk\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:47:47","slug":"flutter-in-app-purchases-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonbuspal.co.uk\/blog\/flutter-in-app-purchases-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flutter in-app purchases (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My previous post (part 1<\/a>) on implementing in-app purchases in my Flutter app, was a bit of a vent after being incredibly frustrated with Apple’s process for using in-app purchases. It went relatively well implementing it for Android, but I had some challenges with Apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appears though, I have to eat some humble pie! Despite a strange approval process with Apple, it would seem like the purchases work without requiring their approval (at least they load up, not sure if I can actually buy something). I had incorrectly assumed that I wasn’t seeing them in my app, because they still required some approval. It turns out, I had to just write my code properly and it will all work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not completely done yet with Apple, however, I believe I’m on the home stretch. I deleted my old, incorrectly named in-app purchases and replaced them with new ones which are named according to the suggested convention. I updated the code to work with the new names and submitted my app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, it was approved by Apple and I also had a courtesy note to say that the in-app purchases which I deleted, was approved at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the entire in-app purchase submission confuses me. I tried to submit the new ones with my build yesterday, but couldn’t really find them. Today, I thought I would check this again and try to submit a new build. The option is still not there, but I noticed the in-app purchases have changed status to “In review”. Apple’s “developer console” makes me feel very uneasy – it isn’t always clear how or where to do things and having a section like the in-app purchase submission only appear in certain circumstances is not very user-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might just leave the app alone for a day and see if my purchases are approved. At least the app has been approved, so all good from that point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using libraries in Flutter, one of the main usability features for me, is that I don’t want to have different code for iOS and Android. Two days ago when I assumed that Apple was in the wrong, I was thinking that this library doesn’t really protect that developer experience. In hindsight though, it completely protects that because I managed to use the same code apart from my list of in-app purchase names for both platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I just have to wait for the money to roll in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The library in questioned which I used was flutter_inapp_purchase<\/a> (version 0.8.8+2 at time of writing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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