An API for querying and managing digital products to facilitate in-app purchases from web applications, in conjunction with the Payment Request API (which is used to make the actual purchases). The API would be linked to a digital distribution service connected to via the user agent. In Chromium, this is specifically a web API wrapper around the Android Play Billing API.

Motivation

This is needed so that web apps in the Play Store can accept purchases for digital goods. (Play policies prevent them from accepting payment via any other method.) Without this, websites that sell digital goods are not installable through the Play Store.

Documentation

• https://github.com/WICG/digital-goods/blob/master/explainer.md
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jbt2Mzt-xg1cWVlFScBQsoX_pE8Kg1gYpulxUSV8FM0/edit

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Payments

Origin trial (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Negative
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• mgiuca@chromium.org
• glenrob@chromium.org
• rouslan@chromium.org

Intent to Prototype url

Comments

M88 OT for Android and Chrome OS only.

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Last updated on 2021-01-14