News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links. Parent comment

Re:Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to do... by themacguffinman on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:57PM (#21274057)
It's allowed because Play Store in-app billing is only required for digital goods & services fulfilled by the app, not physical goods & services fulfilled outside your device. Uber isn't selling you app functionality, they're selling you the physical service of transportation, so they're exempt.

Quote from policy [1]:

Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded on Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except for the following cases:

- Payment is solely for physical products

- Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players).

[1] https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/payments/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to do... by anchpop on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:50PM (#21274704)
Oh, what if the donation link added you to a list of contributors to the website. Seems like that would be "digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself" which might be a workaround. Google might ban it anyway of course
[ Parent | on HN ]