Purchase : AcquireActivity Intent denied

Question

So i set up my environment for testing Android In-App billing.

• My application Key is stored as a raw string to avoid any issue for now
• My application has the BILLING permission
• My application is published in Closed Beta
• All my products (none are subscriptions) are tagged as ACTIVE
• My Activity (the one which makes the call to Billing features) overrides onActivityResult
• I use IABv3 to implement In-App Billing
• I can successfully get the SkuDetails of my products.

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The issue is upon a call to :bp.purchase(activity, productId); (ie starting a purchaseFlow), I get the following logs :

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ActivityManager: START u0 {act=com.google.android.finsky.ACQUIRE dat=iabData:inapp:my.package:productId pkg=com.android.vending cmp=com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.billing.acquire.AcquireActivity (has extras)} from uid 10131 on display 0

D/com.android.server.am.ExtraActivityManagerService: MIUILOG- Permission Denied Activity : Intent { act=com.google.android.finsky.ACQUIRE dat=iabData:inapp:my.package:productId pkg=com.android.vending cmp=com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.billing.acquire.AcquireActivity (has extras) } pkg : com.android.vending uid : 10131 tuid : 10170

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From what I see, everything works well until the PurchaseFlow starts (ie when the AcquireActivity Intent is launched). So the permisson is DENIED but I can't understand why or how to fix it as the only mandatory permission is BILLING and it is enabled.

Note : As IAB can only be tested through a real device, it may be an issue with MIUI but I don't own any other device so I can't test if this is the issue.

Answer 1

Just turn on the "Start in background" permission for "Google Play Store"