Google Play upgrades payment methods: new multi-quantity purchases/multi-line subscriptions, etc.

Although Google Play is not the only app store on the Android platform, it is undoubtedly the largest in terms of application scale. Currently, Google Play has nearly 2 million applications, and the platform is also suitable for micro-transactions and purchases, including games, applications and other services. Now, Google has announced a new way for developers who develop paid applications to provide new payment methods for applications and subscriptions.

At the 2021 I/O developer conference, Google plans to offer several new features for the Google Play Store, including multi-quantity purchases, which allows more than one item to be purchased from a shopping cart in an app at one time.

In addition, Google also plans to launch multi-line subscriptions, which will allow you to sell multiple products in a single subscription. Another new feature is to only allow users to access certain content for a fixed period of time. This will provide developers and users with more options to determine what and how they want to pay.

Google says these features will be available in version 4.0 of the Google Play Billing Library, which is now available for developers to implement. At the same time, the window to update apps is short; new apps are now required to integrate the billing library version before August 2.