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An In-App Purchase Brain Dump

• wallflower 17y ago
  As an alternative, Portland-based Urban Airship now sells and hosts an In-App Purchase infrastructure, in addition to Push Notification services. http://urbanairship.com http://urbanairship.com http://siliconflorist.com/2009/06/17/tap-tap-revenge-urban-airship-celebrates-launch-iphone-os-30-tapulous-deal/ http://siliconflorist.com/2009/06/17/tap-tap-revenge-urban-a...
• EvilTrout 17y ago
  I'm surprised it took him so long to get it together (he recommends a month.) I created an entire app in less than two days that has consumable in app purchases. It has a RoR server component as well as the iPhone component and supports the asynchronous callbacks and such. Maybe it was easier for me because my background is in server side programming?
  • jonknee 17y ago
    It sounds like he hit a fair amount of trouble with subscriptions.
  • pwim 17y ago
    From my look at his article, he's doing everything clientside, which is causing him the extra headaches about restoring stuff.
• patio11 17y ago
  A thought for you: how do you persist the “unlocked” state from one launch to another? You could write a .plist, a database record, or other local file, but that struck me as rather hackable by the pirate/jailbreak crowd. The problem with this line of thinking is that everything is rather hackable by the pirate/jailbreak crowd, and that they do not pay money for your software anyhow. Drop it in a file and spend the extra engineering resources you just saved on something which will help you market the app.