In-App Billing test: android.test.purchased already owned

Question

I am currently testing In-App Billing for a future app, and after I successfully \"bought\" the test item \"android.test.purchased\" the first time, I now receive the respon

Answer 1

In my case, I just needed to clear the apps cache. After clearing the cache, I was able to initiate the purchase flow again.

From my device (4.4.2), I navigated to "Settings->Application manager". Next, I selected the app from the "DOWNLOADED" tab, and then "Clear cache".

Answer 2

No need to write any special consumption code. Just use the adb command for clearing the Google Play Store data:

adb shell pm clear com.android.vending

Answer 3

Add this code to a thread to initiate consume request.

int response = mService.consumePurchase(3, getPackageName(), purchaseToken);

Here for the purchase test, purchaseToken is

purchaseToken = "inapp:" + getPackageName() + ":android.test.purchased";

And

if (response == 0)

then the consumption is successful.

also don't forget to make mService public in

IabHelper.Java

then it would be possible to access like this:

int response = mHelper.mService.consumePurchase(3, getPackageName(), purchaseToken);

Answer 4

In my opinion if your program is not designed to consume the item you do not need to tweak the code in order to clear the memory of an outside vendor. This will make your code more fragile and you will have then to spend a lot of time to add and remove code that does not belong to your software so it is a bad design to implement a solution like that.

The best solution that worked for me to clear android.test.purchased was

adb uninstall com.yourapp.name

and then

adb shell pm clear com.android.vending

I did not need to clear cash and to browse my apps setting or to change code for that. I did need to add the adb to path variables of windows system which was pretty straight forward. So yes you need to use adb which you probably need anyway so..

You just add your C:\ ...\android-sdk\platform-tools; in windows path in environment variables, and I imagine that it is pretty simple in mac and linux os as well. Hope it helps someone to spend few days less with implementing android in app billings.