One Disappointing Fact Of Google Checkout

Google Checkout works great when you use it as somewhat your mode of payment. But what if you want to become a merchant? This is where it is disappointing. Only a select few countries are currently supported by this system. If your country is not supported, then the best thing you can do is go find some other merchant providers.

Google does not have a contact form for non registered merchant or buyer accounts. If you try to answer the form for sellers and buyers, who knows, maybe they won’t reply. Or maybe they do? Hah! Their reply will only be some pre-written template.

As in the case of developing applications for the Android platform, good luck. My advise will be to stop developing for Android because your apps will be worthless if you cannot even sell them. So you might say the plus side of it is that you learned coding for Android.

True, but for me, it is not worth it. I will finish this other app, then I can manually sell them here in my area since the area where I am is my target audience so I can just manually install the app to their phone and I get paid for it right away.

After that, I probably will switch to iOS so I could start learning it.

I was hoping Google provided an alternative way to accept payments like perhaps Paypal while certain countries are not supported yet but no … so it is disappointing.

Unknown permission com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Now this is annoying. I have not had luck integrating my licensing scheme to my Android app the whole day. I guess I am going to call it a night. If any Android developer manages to come to this post, do share your thoughts on what other things I can do to make it work.

I’ve read that this is a known issue for platform 2.3.3 and works on 2.2 (minimum Google API 2.2 Level 8). I did just that but still, the error persists whenever I run my app in the emulator. So in short, I am lost. Users say it works in 2.2 level 8 but why would not it work in my emulator?

And yes, the permission tag is in my manifest file. So there. I am out of ideas. If you do have some tips that can help me make this work, do post your comments here.

One more thing. This problem goes hand in hand with that iLicensingService not found exception message.

Angry Birds For Google Chrome

Amid the excitement after I learned that this game went public, I almost forgot to blog about it.

Now you can play Angry Birds within the Chrome browser. I was impressed when I checked the game out. Man, how did they manage to make this one? And within Google Chrome itself. I am not sure if my laptop is slow or the game eats up humongous resources because the game tends to lag at some points while loading and even during game play.

Still, this is one impressive game I tell you. Just like in the original Angry Bird games in other consoles. And if you want to get on to the hard levels right away, someone just hacked it after the game went public after a few hours. You just need to paste some Javascript code in the address bar of your browser to unlock and lock the levels.

Check it out and let me know what you think. If you have not played Angry Birds yet, then here is your chance now. It is free after all. The game comes in both SD and HD version so pick your option.