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Android Market in-app billing now testing, ready next week

By | March 25, 2011, 8:40am PDT

Summary: Google has steadily improved the Android Market over the last few months, and now in-app billing is almost ready.

Google has steadily improved the Android Market over the last few months, and now in-app billing is almost ready.

If you’re an app developer, then you can get started with uploading and testing your apps right away. The rest of us, however, will have to wait until at least next week to see the new feature in action - barring any setbacks or launch delays.

In case you’re not familiar with in-app billing, it is intended to be convenient for customers and help monetize apps further for developers. Users will be able to track and manage in-app purchases. Developers will be able to dabble with additional billing models such as upgrades and “try-and-buy.”

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