Google will check letting Android builders use their very own billing programs, beginning with Spotify

Google is introducing a pilot to let “a small number of participating developers” provide a fee system along with Google Play’s. Spotify would be the first and can use each Google Play’s billing system and its personal. “This pilot will help us to increase our understanding of whether and how user choice billing works for users in different countries and for developers of different sizes and categories,” Google’s Sameer Samat said in a blog post.

Spotify:

Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store might be introduced with a option to pay with both Spotify’s fee system or with Google Play Billing. For the primary time, these two choices will dwell aspect by aspect within the app. This will give everybody the liberty to subscribe and make purchases utilizing the fee possibility of their selection immediately within the Spotify app. Spotify will proceed to freely talk with customers about our Premium subscription service, promote reductions and promotions, and provides listeners on our Free tier the power to transform to Premium immediately within the app.

Over the approaching months, Spotify will work with Google’s product and engineering groups to construct this new expertise, and we’ll roll out in nations around the globe. Working collectively, the businesses will check and be taught, collectively exploring product improvements throughout the Android platform. We anticipate launching the primary iteration of User Choice Billing later this 12 months.

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