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Square releases API for taking payments in your own Android apps (squareup.com)
58 points by jrodbx on May 27, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments




There's no such thing as "your own Android app", unless the apk is sideloaded. All apps downloaded by users from Google Play are essentially Google's, if you are not "too big to get banned."

[1] Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded on Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except for the following cases:

    Payment is solely for physical products

    Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players)
1. https://play.google.com/about/monetization.html


This API is for physical PoS, where the user running the app is selling things, not buying digital things. That developer agreement doesn't apply.


As a small publisher and given Google's lack of customer support on such issues I will wait till this gets adopted to better understand best practices.


Does square have a way to handle subscriptions yet? Seems to be the only thing they are missing


Google Play offers PayPal Here, works with a card reader, so I can't see why this would be any different.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paypal.her...

edit to fix url




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