Introducing Unibill - the cross platform In App purchase plugin!

Thanks, but when I delete FakeGoogleplayPlugin, I get an error that GooglePlayModule can't find the FakeGooglePlayPlugin class. If I delete GooglePlayModule, I get errors from files trying to access GooglePlayModule. And I assume I would keep getting these errors on down the line as I deleted stuff until I had no more Unibill

And the other people in my company have the exact same version numbers of our game as me, and as is on our server, so the other issue about not being configured for billing is unfortunately not that.

 

@Dreamwriter the problem is that file has moved, you should find you have two copies of it. Looks like you're on an old version anyhow, since GooglePlayModule doesn't exist any more either.

It's frustrating but since there's no versioning support in the asset store it is impossible for me to move or delete files in updates.

If you import Unibill into a fresh project and compare it to your assets folder you'll see which files should actually be there.

Regarding the versioning error you're seeing, the only solutions I am aware of are the version code and the signing process.

If you think you've got these consistent across your build machines, I suggest you take a working APK and a non working APK and unzip both into separate directories, then do a diff to see what's different between them.

 

x 100.

Or alternatively if Unibill could implement what SIS has done an create a shop template system that would make it even easier to work with, as well as not having to integrate two packages that may or may not mesh too well.

 

We have way more than that on the roadmap

 

Virtual products won't be long!

 

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with the las unibill version on iOS. the local currency symbol is not displayed. Only a number.

What is wrong ?

 

I can think of no reason on unibills side. I currently away but will dig into it next week.

 

Just a suggestion, I think Unibill needs a forum for archiving bug reports/workarounds etc. Something simple like the Finger Gestures forum possibly: http://forum.fatalfrog.com/

 

On Android, I'm trying to buy a non-consumable that was previously purchased on a certain account. Unibill seems to be erroring out in the DLL because "Unable to buy item (response: 7:Item Already Owned)", but it isn't setting any accessible errors in the Unity interface based on that, so my code has no idea why the fail callback is failing, so I can't give the item to the player that they already bought. Any idea on how I can tell if the player has already purchased something?

This is better than the older version of Unibill, though, as that would give a black screen that hangs.

 

@Dreamwriter you should restore transactions to ensure that users get their non consumable purchases restored. This will be fixed however, such that the product is restored automatically if it is owned but not presently restored (as happens on ios).

 

Restoring transactions is unfortunately not something that should ever be done without the player first specifically asking for it, since on iOS restoring transactions requires the player enter their password (we used to restore transactions every game boot, until we realized that was what was requiring the password check). Note that on iOS, purchasing something previously owned will make the system pop up a message about how you already purchased this item, so will now get it for free, and that returns a successful purchase message to Unibill, so the problem is only on Android where it silently sends an error message to Unibill, which doesn't completely handle it.

 

It is true that transactions should not be restored automatically, but the option to restore should be offered to users in the form of a button.

 

Unibill 1.2.5 is now available

1.2.5 contains a critical fix for Windows Phone 8 that may cause your app to be rejected by Microsoft's app review team. Please contact support@outlinegames.com for a unitypackage.

 

Oh yeah, we have that button, but we still need to know if the person is trying to buy something their account already bought, so we can give it to them - it's not guaranteed the player will press the button after installing to a new device. But the way Unibill currently works on Android that's unfortunately not possible, because while the underlying Unibill library knows what happened (it's printing a message about it to the console log), the interface just sends our game a Failed callback with no errors at all.

 

I just started using your plug-in and its saved me a lot of trouble! Thanks!

My game is very memory intensive. I am having an issue where if unibiller is initialized but there is no internet connection, the performance degrades until the game crashes. I don't know if it's from the actual process or the logging.

Is there a way for me to reduce the time between retries from 1s to, say, 10?

 

@ArtBIT please contact support@outlinegames.com

 

Unibill 1.3.0 is now available, featuring Windows Store 8.1 support!

Please email support@outlinegames.com with your purchase receipt for an advance unitypackage

 

@Dreamwriter the Android repurchasing of an owned non consumable bug is fixed in 1.3.1

 

Due to laziness, here my email to alex:

"Hi alex,
banderous from unity forum gave me your email adress (propably you are banderous? I'm not sure... ).
I have a problem with the new unibill 1.3 version. If I set up the InventoryEditor, i.e the currency ID, and start the play mode in Unity (4.3.1f1 on a PC with W7) it looks good (even though it doesn't add currency to the currency balance). If I then end the play mode, the currency ID is set back to "Name me!". I even tried to change the IDs of the default currencies, but they also get set back to "gold" and "silver". This could be the reason why the currency balance isn't updating?!

Am I using the wrong version? I used the download link from the email.

Banderous wrote this in the forum:
"Please email alex@ballatergames.com with your purchase receipt for an advance unitypackage "

Underneath you find my receipt.

I hope you can help me.
best regards,
Dennis"

 

@Dennis responded via email. Fixed in 1.3.2.

 

Thanks for fixing the Android repurchasing bug. I tried to install 1.3.2, though, and I'm getting a null exception in the Inventory Editor, line 146:

config.AndroidBillingPlatform = (BillingPlatform) Enum.Parse(typeof(BillingPlatform), androidBillingPlatforms[androidBillingPlatform]);

config is null.

 

@Dreamwriter that would indicate a problem with your UnibillInventory.json, indicating it hasn't been parsed correctly. Please take a look at it and/or email it to support@outlinegames.com

 

Thanks for fixing the problem. Works like a charm.

 

Hi, is there a way to have multiple inventories? For example, on some platforms we do not want to sell the same IAP items, is there a way so that on those platforms we can list a different set of items?

-JJ

 

@capitalJmedia you would need to configure a different inventory file and deploy with that file on those platforms.

 

What's the best way to do that? Move the inventory files in-out of the project before you make a build for a specific platform? or keep them in the project but rename them as you need them? Or is there any spot in the Unibill code that I could add platform dependent #if statements to choose different inventory filenames?

 

@Banderous did you receive my PM from a few days ago?

 

Probably easiest to load different inventories with ifdefs. The place to do so is the RemoteConfigManager.

 

Just discovered a load of private messages, I've now turned on email notifications.

 

Any idea why our game crashes when using the new Unibill?

 

@Dreamwriter Send a trace from device to support@outlinegames.com

 

Well, I'm talking about the null exception we got:

You said to email you our UnibillInventory, which I did. I just tried installing 1.3.2 again, and noticed it's first getting a null exception in InventoryPostProcessor.SimplifySchema the moment 1.3.2 is installed, line 76:

var curs = (List<object>) ((Dictionary<string, object>)dic["currencies"])["currency"];

 

I had to debug it myself, and found a workaround for the problem. What's happening is, when we import the new version of Unibill, it tries to convert the old inventory XML file to a new JSON file format. But we don't have any Currencies set up, and the inventory converter in InventoryPostProcessor doesn't handle that situation.

What I ended up doing was remarking out the Currencies section in SimplifySchema, then having it convert our inventory, then manually copying an empty Currencies section into the JSON file at the end.

 

I don't recall our email. There are a few conversion issues moving to json. Sorry for the trouble.

 

@Banderous I'm getting an exception building for WP8:
An exception of type 'System.TypeLoadException' occurred in Unknown Module. and wasn't handled before a managed/native boundary

This happens even when building an empty project.
Sent alex@ballatergames.com an email about this.

 

This looks like an issue with the version of Unity you're using, will respond via email.

 

So, I'm considering buying Unibill but I would like to know if it fits my needs before it.

I'm developing a game with virtual currency for ios, android and facebook. So unibill would help everything for ios and android. For facebook, unibill would be used handle the currency, the transactions I would handle myself.
Would this work?

 

@tommy_ Yes; You can increment the balance of unibills virtual currencies via unibills method calls, so you could still use them for currency management on facebook.

 

Unibill 1.3.8 is now available, containing a critical Windows Phone 8 fix.

Windows Phone was essentially broken in the last two point releases since it packaged a Debug DLL.

As ever contact support@outlinegames.com with purchase receipt for an immediate unitypackage.

 

Maybe a dumb question, but what is the best way to update a plugin?
Simply install the new version over the old one? Or search all outdated data and delete them? What would you recommend?

 

Unity doesn't have a package management system.

In unibill's case I strive to make it possible to just import the latest version over the top of the old one.

 

Using Unibill, we have one iOS device/account giving this message with a consumable: "You've already purchased this In-App Purchase but it hasn't been downloaded". Internet responses to this message seem to range from "ignore it, it's a sandbox-only message" to "make sure you add your class as a transaction observer" to "when you get this message, it lets you complete the transaction". Any ideas?

 

@Dreamwriter it should complete the transaction when you hit OK.

 

It unfortunately doesn't complete the transaction when consumables get that message, only when non-consumables do. Now we're getting this on Android as well once in a while, "Error: You already own this item"

 

@Dreamwriter will attempt to repro.

 

Hi there.
Cool plugin.

I receive the dreaded parse error when running your sample scene on a WP8 device:

> Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.DLL!Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseNumber(char[] json, ref int index) Line 395 Unknown

+ $exception {System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.ParseDouble(String value, NumberStyles options, NumberFormatInfo numfmt)
at System.Double.Parse(String s)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseNumber(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseObject(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseObject(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseObject(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseObject(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseObject(Char[] json, Int32 index)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.parseValue(Char[] json, Int32 index, Boolean success)
at Unibill.Impl.MiniJSON.jsonDecode(String json)
at Unibill.Impl.UnibillConfiguration..ctor(String json, RuntimePlatform runtimePlatform, ILogger logger)
at Unibill.Impl.RemoteConfigManager..ctor(IResourceLoader loader, IStorage storage, ILogger logger, RuntimePlatform platform)
at Unibiller.Initialise()
at UnibillDemo.Start()
at UnibillDemo.UnityFastInvoke_Start()} System.Exception {System.FormatException}

 

@3d_Game_Ready does the scene work correctly in the editor?

 

Yes it does. I think the error is due to this: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/70012-float-Parse-different-for-German-OS
I've changed the offending lines (in MiniJSON.cs) to something like:
return Double.Parse( new string( numberCharArray ) , System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
That solved it on the device.

 

@3d_Game_Ready thanks! I'll get that fixed in the next update.

 

Hi Banderous

It seems like the solution we discussed broke the localizedPriceString result in Unibill.
When I query localizedPriceString I receive an empty string.
Here you can see in your demo that the prices are not displayed: http://gyazo.com/0962f0d5bf12553523be87696e2cc7af