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Adrian Brown
Adrian Brown

Reputation: 466

Android purchase date of application

Is it possible to check what date the app was actually purchased, Not the in-app purchases, the actual date the user purchased the original application from the google store. I have found things like packageInfo.firstInstallTime, but that changes if you clear the device and reinstall etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 688

Answers (1)

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 10278

I'm not sure if this is on-topic, but the only way to store data across installations is to persist it somewhere (like a server). You would have to get the gmail account associated with the purchase, associate a purchase ID and then check purchase date.

This is flawed because a re-install on a new device would look the same as a re-install on an existing device. It's also possible for a user to have two devices with the same gmail account, and therefore two (or more) active, valid installs and a single purchase. Most, but not all devices have a unique device ID.

And while there is no Official Google Play API (to request the data from Google), here is a good link for unofficial/creative options for search and content, but nothing for transaction data (which would probably lead to security risks without an official API):

how to get information of google play store in my android application?

Upvotes: 2

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