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Correct permissions for Android in-app puchases

When trying to create the subscription within Google Play Console I get a message To add in-app products, you need to add the BILLING permission to your APK which I believe I've done.

I've added the following to my config.xml:

<edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest/application" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING" />
</edit-config>

And I've installed the the in-app-purchase-2 plugin (https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/in-app-purchase-2) and added the billing key as mentioned here: https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/wiki/Setup-for-Android-Google-Play#add-android-billing-key yet google play console still gives the error.

When I view the upload APK in App Bundle Explorer (within Google Play Console) I can see com.android.vending.BILLING listed in the permissions (image attached below). This leads me to believe I've granted the permission correctly. However, other permissions in the list don't have the com.android.vending prefix. Instead they have android.permission yet I haven't seen any cordova documentation to use anything other than com.android.vending.

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How can I resolve this issue?

I'm using Ionic 5 with cordova-android ^9.1.0

Solution

  • I performed the following tasks and the issue has resolved itself:

    1. Uploaded a "release" APK (not "debug" APK)
    2. Released the new APK as "Closed testing" not "Internal testing"