119: In App Purchasing Pain
This conversation digs into subscriptions, transaction states, refunds, testing strategy, and the operational burden of maintaining purchase flows across iOS and Android. It also evaluates abstraction services like RevenueCat as a way to simplify implementation and ongoing maintenance.
What you’ll learn
- How iOS and Android in-app purchase APIs differ in lifecycle, testing, and state handling.
- Which failure points commonly impact subscription reliability and revenue correctness.
- When using a backend abstraction like RevenueCat is worth the trade-off.