{"id":61796,"date":"2012-10-10T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61796"},"modified":"2012-10-10T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:42:26","slug":"google-play-offers-app-test-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/61796-google-play-offers-app-test-drives.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play offers app test drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>The <a title=\"Google Play\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/472468-Google-Play\">Google Play<\/a> store is now allowing users to try subscription apps on a trial basis before making a purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Once the trial period of up to a week has passed, the user can either cancel the app, or let payment automatically kick in. <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> developers can elect to extend the free trial period for more than one week.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> rolled out its in-app subscriptions feature in May. The idea was to let users pay for monthly or annual subscriptions directly inside of apps, which were set to auto-renew by default, with transactions managed by the Google Play store.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/guide\/google\/play\/billing\/billing_subscriptions.html#trials\" target=\"_blank\">Android developer blog<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Android 4.2 announced late October?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61720-android-4-2-announced-late-october.html\">Android 4.2 announced late October?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61290-only-25-of-android-users-upgraded-to-newer-versions.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Only 25% of Android users upgraded to newer versions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60843-samsung-htc-android-jelly-bean-for-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung, HTC Android Jelly Bean for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google opens up a trial period for subscription-based apps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":49219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[167,10100,7979],"class_list":["post-61796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61828,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61796\/revisions\/61828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}