I'm trying to implement in-app purchases using the official Flutter In-App-Purchase plugin. I've got things working, except I can't figure out how to tell if a users subscription is still active or if it expired. Even after I canceled my test subscription, the values I get after connecting and doing queryPastPurchases()
are the same as when the subscription was active:
productId: test_subscription_1
transactiondate: 1565682346568
status: null
verificationData
source: IAPSource.GooglePlay
localVerificationData: {
"orderId":"GPA.1234-1234-1234-12345",
"packageName":"com.example.myapp",
"productId":"test_subscription_1",
"purchaseTime":1565682346568,
"purchaseState":0,
"purchaseToken":"<long string>",
"autoRenewing":false
}
serverVerificationData: "<long string>"
Am I supposed to simply hard code my subscription period and compare the current time to purchaseTime
+ the subscription period? Will that even work across auto-renewals? What if the user changes the date on his phone to a year ago? It seems like there should be some value that should either give me the expiration time or at least a boolean true/false to indicate if the subscription is still valid?
The official in-app purchase plugin handles making the purchase but doesn't supply all of the backend infrastructure you need to handle auto-renewing subscriptions specifically.
The short answer to your question is send this purchase info up to your server and manage subscription status there. Alternatively you can look into a managed solution like purchases_flutter
: https://pub.dev/packages/purchases_flutter/