urgent, in-app purchases not working?

On the latest build 284.10 in-app purchases can no longer get the purchased items.

This is extremely bad timing, because just a few days ago google decided to change the in-app purchases order id format.

Before it was "merchantid.orderid" and now it's just "GPA.orderid".
I was comparing with my merchantid as a way to verify the purchases (about 95% of purchases in my app are scam-attempts).
So now nobody can buy anything, and they get an error in my game.

I spent all day yesterday and today figuring out the google api oath authentication, and i have finally managed to create a php script that will communicate with it, and i can verify purchases with google directly.

Now what i really don't need is a bug in the in-app object to mess up the critical emergency update that i want to release ASAP.

i loop through the inventory and all the items in the store are listed fine, but it does not retrieve the purchased items:
08-02 21:39:30.276: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Querying owned items, item type: subs
08-02 21:39:30.276: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Package name: com.gameyey.flapping
08-02 21:39:30.276: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Calling getPurchases with continuation token: null
08-02 21:39:30.280: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Owned items response: 0
08-02 21:39:30.280: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Continuation token: null
08-02 21:39:30.280: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Querying SKU details.
08-02 21:39:30.288: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Ending async operation: refresh inventory
08-02 21:39:30.288: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Query inventory finished.

So when i buy an item nothing happens, and when i try to buy it again, we get this:
08-02 21:42:11.362: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Constructing buy intent for flapping.gema, item type: inapp
08-02 21:42:11.370: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Unable to buy item, Error response: 7:Item Already Owned
08-02 21:42:11.370: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Ending async operation: startPurchaseProcess
08-02 21:42:11.370: I/MMFRuntime(8291): Purchase finished: Result: Unable to buy item (Response: 7:Item Already Owned), purchase: null, iD: 11

Any progress?

Hey SoftwareWolf,

I've been integrating IAP's into the new slots engine the last couple of weeks and it's worked fine thus far. I just did a re-compile today to double-check and purchases work successfully.

The Response ID 7 means the "buyer" already owns this item. The "buyer" cannot purchase this item again until it is consumed. You must consume the item first before being able to purchase again...

The problem is that PurchasedQty( "In-App Android" ) returns 0.
I have the same code/events that worked before, but now it doesn't. Obviously i need to consume the items, the problem is that i can't list which items have been purchased.

What i am doing is starting a loop PurchasedQty( "In-App Android" ) times, on the 'On Query Inventory Ready' event, and it's 0, even tho i clearly have purchases (since i am getting response 7 if i try to buy again). How do you do it your app? Your setup might be consuming the item directly when purchased rather than listing owned items?
The InventoryQty( "In-App Android" ) returns all the available purchases correctly, so it's not because i am missing the SKU's.

On my initial implementation, I listed the purchased items so I could visually see the purchase going through and being listed.

Now the testing implementation is done, I just do the purchase and instantly consume, however I do still have the purchase query carried out for logging on an invisible list. It seems to work just fine.

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Originally Posted by SoftWarewolf

The problem is that PurchasedQty( "In-App Android" ) returns 0.
I have the same code/events that worked before, but now it doesn't. Obviously i need to consume the items, the problem is that i can't list which items have been purchased.

What i am doing is starting a loop PurchasedQty( "In-App Android" ) times, on the 'On Query Inventory Ready' event, and it's 0, even tho i clearly have purchases (since i am getting response 7 if i try to buy again). How do you do it your app? Your setup might be consuming the item directly when purchased rather than listing owned items?
The InventoryQty( "In-App Android" ) returns all the available purchases correctly, so it's not because i am missing the SKU's.

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I might have the same problem. InventoryQty( "In-App Android" ) works. I see my item listed .But whenever I want to purchase it, I get the error "The item you requested is not available for purchase". I followed everything in the manual. My product is activated and I've uploaded my app as a beta version in release mode, which I test under another Google Play account than my developer's one. All my events are identical to the examples listed.

Then I found this thread and downloaded SoftWarewolf's game. I discovered that not only do his IAPs still not work, the exact same error shows up as mine, also at the moment of opening the shop.

So in app work or not ?

For me it's too soon to draw that conclusion and I'm experimenting a lot. However, I feel convinced that maybe a part that has now become essential is not covered in the manual.

Just now, my error changed into "cannot be purchased by the developer", which seems very promising. I believe this means that I should be able to make the purchase from another device once I get my hands on one.

But it's frustrating that I can't figure out what I did with certainty. I think my public app did not have the InApp object in it, nor did it have the Internet permission checked. I published a public version with the InApp object in it but without it actually having any events, and also checked the Internet permission. Afterwards, I uploaded a next version to beta. For some reason, I now got rid of the pesky error.

I don't understand how it all connects and maybe I was unaware of another thing I did that actually caused it. Maybe the people who struggle with this error could consider follow the steps I took to see if it makes a difference.

The first message is because the poduct was not populated in all server.

You as developer cannot buy any product, you need to set a tester account to test and not get charge.

Got it to work now.

I tested and verified that the steps I previously described in my post got rid of the "The item you requested is not available for purchase" error, though I still do not understand how:

1. Published my app with the complete in-app shop with all its events and the IAP object, but I moved the shop outside the frame so users cannot reach or see
2. Then made a new version of the app, but with the shop inside the frame
3. Put this app in beta and assigned tester accounts

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You as developer cannot buy any product, you need to set a tester account to test and not get charge.

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This unfortunately did not seem to be enough though to get rid of "cannot be purchased by the developer". Mobile devices check what account is rooted in its system. It's the first account you setup when using the device for the first time. When that account is the developer's account, test purchases will not work even if you log in Google Play with a test account. I found that there are three ways to solve it:

• Simply use a device that does not have the developer account as its main account
• Do a factory reset on your device. Then you can change the main account (but this will also erase all your data first)
• Root your device and use a root exploder to backup accounts.db, delete it and restart the device (this is what I did)

My products can now be purchased. :)

Promising to hear it's working!, i actually disabled all in-app purchases in the game while the issue needs to resolved, i have just been really busy with something else and not got around to troubleshooting. So just to be clear, when you retrieve PurchasedQty( "In-App Android" ) you can get a number higher than 0 after the item is purchased? thanks :)

PurchaseQty is a number representing the actual purchased item that are not consumed.

Yes, they show up in those test lists and consuming the purchase also works just fine. :)

I'm curious to know if those steps I did truly managed to solve it and it wasn't something else I did.

yes you solve first giving time to populate the item you want to sell, sometime takes one or two days

making the testing account and all set, remember to put as draft but not publish.

so far no changes has been made by Google about this, so it should be working.

arrgh.. my game currently crashes whenever you close the purchase dialog. (game freezes, get's a pop-up asking to close unresponsive app)

some logging from cancelled purchase:
09-21 13:06:15.633: I/MMFRuntime(23979): Purchase finished: Result: User canceled. (Response: -10005:User cancelled), purchase: null, iD: 11
09-21 13:06:15.640: V/WindowManager(677): Changing focus from Window{42bb3bc0 u0 com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.billing.lightpurchase.Ia bV3Activity} to Window{43182eb8 u0 com.gameyey.flapping/com.gameyey.flapping.Main} Callers=com.android.server.wm.WindowManagerService .handleAppTransitionReadyLocked:9395 com.android.server.wm.WindowManagerService.perform LayoutAndPlaceSurfacesLockedInner:9949 com.android.server.wm.WindowManagerService.perform LayoutAndPlaceSurfacesLockedLoop:8872 com.android.server.wm.WindowManagerService.perform LayoutAndPlaceSurfacesLocked:8814
09-21 13:06:15.644: I/WindowManager(677): Losing focus: Window{42bb3bc0 u0 com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.billing.lightpurchase.Ia bV3Activity}

09-21 13:06:32.701: E/ANRManager(677): ANR in com.gameyey.flapping (com.gameyey.flapping/.Main)
09-21 13:06:32.701: E/ANRManager(677): Reason: Input dispatching timed out (Waiting because the touched window has not finished processing the input events that were previously delivered to it.)


Good news is that i actually managed to change the entire system with secure server-to-server oath authentication, and it works. If i do a purchase - let the app crash - and then restart the app, it will list the purchase, send a request to my server with the token, i'll verify the token directly with google, send the response back to the app, then the app will consume and credit the purchase! :)

see these two lines.

09-21 13:06:32.701: E/ANRManager(677): ANR in com.gameyey.flapping (com.gameyey.flapping/.Main)
09-21 13:06:32.701: E/ANRManager(677): Reason: Input dispatching timed out (Waiting because the touched window has not finished processing the input events that were previously delivered to it.)


nothing here is from runtime, what objects are you using in this game?

It's my games identifier (com.yourcompany.yourapplication/.Main)

edit1:
I have now tested on another clean device (just did factory reset)

Same problem, uploaded log here:
http://hungryfishgame.com/link/bug/fullcrash.txt

edit2:
for some reason it just started working!, without any changes it now works perfectly on both my devices.. very odd

Just for confirmation in case you appreciate it: I no longer getting that "unavailable" error when I open a purchase. :)

Yeah, well i haven't updated yet, so the purchases will fail ;) but i'll guess i'll have to push the update now and just hope for the best.

let me know how it goes.