Mobile App Purchases

[khamarr3524]

Is there any system (or plans for one) that incorporates this? I've read a little into the new .10 release but I didn't find anything on the topic and nothing in the forums. The reason I ask is I'm working on the design and prototyping for an app that my friend and I are looking for a final development environment for and, my personal bias to Love, wants me to do it here, but I'm just trying to see where the functionality inevitably ends. I haven't done (really any) mobile development so I didn't know how this is handled.

[bobbyjones]

Do you mean IAP or selling your app on the app store? IAP can be done by modifying the source code of love to support it. There are examples in the Android port subforum of this being done for ads. For now you should focus on completing the game first. Once it is complete adding in IAP with help from Google should be trivial.

[zorg]

In-Application-Purchases can be done by modifying the source code of love to support it.

Or, it may be possible to use the FFI for this; it might be slow, due to some mobile os-es not supporting JIT, but at least you don't need to touch löve's source, right?

[bobbyjones]

zorg it is possible to use FFI but you will still need to modify at least the build files to add the libraries in. BTW bartbes was working on Java FFI utilizing the NDK on Android. All in luajit. But it can't do anything without the proper permissions and dependencies. So building is unavoidable.

[spill]

Folks following this thread might want to take a look at this post I made about implementing in-app purchasing for iOS.