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enjektor0
enjektor0

Reputation: 543

Uniquely identifying the user in the Android application via the Play store?

I have an android application that does not have login / register structure but users can start subscription with in-app purchase.

I want to be able to recognize the user on different devices where the user logs in with the same play store account. So I want to be able to uniquely identify a user through the play store account.

Since my application is in the child and family category, I cannot access AccountManager-style sensitive data.

How can I do that. Does anyone have great ideas?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 297

Answers (2)

Mehran Khan
Mehran Khan

Reputation: 31

There is a great library which I hope will help you solve your problem as I'm already using it in some products. You can try This library

This library perfectly handles Subscriptions as well as Purchases with and without payload. you just have to place implementation 'com.anjlab.android.iab.v3:library:1.0.44' in your build.gradle and you are good to go.

When your build.gradle is ready, implement BillingProcessor.IBillingHandler with your activity.

Then intialize your billing processor by placing this code in onCreate.

bp = new BillingProcessor(this, "YOUR LICENSE KEY FROM GOOGLE PLAY CONSOLE HERE", this);
bp.initialize();

You will get the following override methods,

  @Override
  public void onBillingInitialized() {
    /*
    * Called when BillingProcessor was initialized and it's ready to purchase 
    */
  }
    
  @Override
  public void onProductPurchased(String productId, TransactionDetails details) {
    /*
    * Called when requested PRODUCT ID was successfully purchased
    */
  }
    
  @Override
  public void onBillingError(int errorCode, Throwable error) {
    /*
    * Called when some error occurred. See Constants class for more details
    * 
    * Note - this includes handling the case where the user canceled the buy dialog:
    * errorCode = Constants.BILLING_RESPONSE_RESULT_USER_CANCELED
    */
  }
    
  @Override
  public void onPurchaseHistoryRestored() {
    /*
    * Called when purchase history was restored and the list of all owned PRODUCT ID's 
    * was loaded from Google Play
    */
  }

Here is the trick, onPurchaseHistoryRestored is the actual method you are looking for. This method will get called whenever there is a subscription or purchase already available against a specific email. This library will automatically handle it for you. Let me know if it help you.

Don't forget to add this <uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING" /> permission in your Manifest.

Upvotes: 1

zhangxaochen
zhangxaochen

Reputation: 34027

If you want to query the subscription status of users who log in to the same account on different devices, you can use the BillingClient.queryPurchases() interface to query the subscription status. If the interface returns a subscription, it is within the subscription validity period, and you need to continue providing services.

Upvotes: 0

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