Buying my app from Google Play Store

[johnaaronrose]

I just tried to run my app on my ZTE Blade phone and it came up with a licensing error: I'm using the Check License method as suggested by Erel. I'm sure that it used to work i.e. approx 2 weeks ago & AFAIK I've made no changes to the app. So I thought that I'd download my non-free app from Google Play Store. When I tried to do that, it came up with "Error: your order could not be processed. Please try again". I know that my Google login & card payment details are correct as I've used in them elsewhere. How do I find out what the error is due to & how to correct it?

So I looked on the Google Play Android Developer Console. The app is published but it has a message stating "New in-app products and subscriptions cannot be added because the current application version does not use the BILLING permission.". I'm selling the app for a modest fee. However, I assume that I do not have any in-app products and subscriptions because there is only the initial payment (to be paid through Google Play for downloading my app). What does this mean and how do I correct it?

 

[Kevin]

I can't really answer all of your questions, but the error you received when trying to buy your own app is a generic "oops" error from Google. The problem is that Google won't let you buy your own app.

 

[JonPM]

Do you have in app purchases? If so you need to add the permission to the manifest

 

[johnaaronrose]

In app purchases & subscriptions

Do you have in app purchases? If so you need to add the permission to the manifest

Looking at In-app Billing | Android Developers:

Standard in-app products (one-time billing), or
Subscriptions, (recurring, automated billing)

AFAIK I am not using either in app purchases & subscriptions. Therefore, I do not need to specify this permission in the manifest. Is that message just telling me that I can't have those facilities? Therefore it would not affect doenloading, licensing & running my app?

 

[johnaaronrose]

Thank you

I can't really answer all of your questions, but the error you received when trying to buy your own app is a generic "oops" error from Google. The problem is that Google won't let you buy your own app.

Thanks, Kevin. Yet another (undocumented or difficult to find) rule from Google which seems to have little rational basis!