Android In-App Purchasing Launches Next Week: Android App Developers Should Rejoice

One of the best things that Apple did for iPhone app developers in the summer of 2009 was to provide the ability for in-app purchases. This let developers sell upgrades, add-ons, virtual goods and, more recently, subscriptions without asking the app user to leave the app. The developer of “Flower Garden” wrote about his experience of moving the app from a paid app to a free one with in-app purchasing, for example, virtual flower seeds.