In App Purchases

With my mind now quite focussed on android development I had some thought on my development process.

I have the idea recording and notes side of things sorted. I am using google sites along with some embedded google docs if needed. All is good here.

One area that currently annoys me is having two seperate apps for the Days Until app. One is free and the other is paid for and free from ads. I have it all set up correctly with 99% of the code in a library that the two main apps draw from.

So what annoys me. Well shipping and testing two apks is a pain. This led me to reading about in app purchases. It does not seem that hard to get this all set up. The funny thing is you need a separate google account to do the testing. You cannot buy things from your own apps. You also need to test it proper hardware using the test account.

My current set up is my personal google account is my developer account. So I cannot test in app purchases without resetting my phone to use a different account. This is a pain.

The plan is to register a new google account and then register that as a developer. Finally I will add my personal account as a tester account. This seems to be the least painful way to test this stuff.

I am not planning using in app purchases with Days Until but possibly for other apps I create. It is just better to get it sorted before I start publishing more apps.

Oh and as far as I can tell (according to stack overflow) google are ok with this.

My mind is very much into removing even the smallest amounts of friction in my development process and while this sort of thing may sound small having two apks adds to the testing time before a release.