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
Status in Chromium
Origin trial (tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
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Owners
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Intent to Prototype threadSearch tags
payments, billing,Last updated on 2021-01-14
Comments
M88 OT for Android and Chrome OS only.