In-App Purchase is an optional feature, which developers can use to embed a store directly within an app. Sometimes you may want to extend more features in your current game to keep your consumers interested in playing. Here's your chance and possibly more revenue in your pocket!
This chapter only concerns with In-App Purchases in the Apple iTunes Store for the iOS platform. If you are a paid Corona SDK subscriber, In-App Purchase support for Android via Google's Google Play Store (not available on Kindle Fire and Nook) is available in the Daily Builds page starting with build 2012.760. The Daily Builds can be found at: http://developer.anscamobile.com/downloads/daily-builds. Android developers who want to implement In-App Purchases in their apps can use this as an alternative.
We'll cover the following in this chapter:
Consumable, non-consumable, and subscription purchases
Making transactions
Restoring purchased items
Initializing Corona's store module...