The Android Developer Ecosystem has announced that in-app purchases will soon be enabled for the Android platform. Android has already cemented its position as the the overarching mobile platform in the world, its growth driven by low cost and open source nature. With the in-app sale functionality enabled, Android could likely give rise to a whole new mobile economy.
Developers the world over will now be able to sell intellectual (or even tangible) serivices within their applications, giving rise to new possibilities and changing lives the world over. Mobile devices will give emerging businesses new opportunities to showcase their wares.
Catalogs of in-app products, replete with pricing information, can now be created in the Developer Console. Although testing is available this week, the full functionality won’t be released until the week starting on the 28th of March 2011.
