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Amazon Fire (TV) In-app Purchase: Subscription

I am currently working on a test app for Amazon's In-App Purchasing SDK for Android. Specifically, I am working on Fire TV, but the problems also seems to appear on a Fire Tablet.

I created a (currently unpublished) App on my Developer account and added a subscription with both an annual and a monthly option.

Here is the exported JSON:

{
    "inapppurchasingtestabo.monthly": {
        "price": 1.07,
        "subscriptionParent": "inapppurchasingtestabo",
        "smallIconUrl": "http://",
        "title": "Subscription",
        "itemType": "SUBSCRIPTION",
        "description": "This is the subscription!",
        "languageTitleMap": {
            "DE": "Abo",
            "US": "Subscription"
        },
        "languageDescriptionMap": {
            "DE": "Das ist das Abo!",
            "US": "This is the subscription!"
        },
        "currencyPriceMap": {
            "US": 0.0
        }
    },
    "inapppurchasingtestabo.annually": {
        "price": 10.72,
        "subscriptionParent": "inapppurchasingtestabo",
        "smallIconUrl": "http://",
        "title": "Subscription",
        "itemType": "SUBSCRIPTION",
        "description": "This is the subscription!",
        "languageTitleMap": {
            "DE": "Abo",
            "US": "Subscription"
        },
        "languageDescriptionMap": {
            "DE": "Das ist das Abo!",
            "US": "This is the subscription!"
        },
        "currencyPriceMap": {
            "US": 0.0
        }
    }
}

I installed the Amazon App Tester App on the device and copied the JSON to /mnt/sdcard/amazon.sdktester.json.

While everything seems to work in principle - from the app I can see the subscription along with the available prices, the descriptions, etc. and I can also make a purchase which then shows up in the App Tester App - I see no indication as to which price is for which subscription period.

Compare the following screenshots:

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Can you tell which price is for the monthly and which is for the annual subscription? (Also, keep in mind, that for all the user knows, they could be bi-weekly and semi-annual, too).

So my question is: What am I doing wrong and how do I get the purchase dialog to display the period along with the price?

Solution

  • This is likely a bug or limitation with the Amazon App Tester app. From my experience, it does not fully replicate the production environment. It's useful for testing the basic workflow locally.

    I would recommend you to use Live App Testing which allows you to test in the production environment.