Simplest way to Remove Ads via IAP

Published on: April 14, 2018

There are plenty of tutorials on the internet bout how to Remove Ads in your App via IAP on Android, but all are way harder & difficult for a beginner to understand. Someone with a little bit of Experience in Android will also find it a tad difficult.

In the beginning, even I faced problems with Android’s Own IAP library!

So here’s a simple tutorial for it.
This tutorial doesn't include parts like getting App’s API key & SKU (in app product name) from Play Developer Console.

Add the dependency as follows to grab the library –
groovy
```
compile 'com.anjlab.android.iab.v3:library:+'
```
Next step, create a private variable like below in your Activity -
java
```
private BillingProcessor mBillingProcessor;
```

Initialize the BillingProcessor in the onCreate() like this –

java

mBillingProcessor = new BillingProcessor(MainActivity.this, "Your App’s API String Key here", new BillingProcessor.IBillingHandler() {
  @Override
  public void onProductPurchased(String productName, TransactionDetails transacDetails) {
    if (productName.equals("Product / SKU Name that you Created on Developer Console")) {
        relativeLayout.removeView(mAdView);
    }
  }

  @Override public void onBillingInitialized() {}
  @Override public void onPurchaseHistoryRestored() {}
  @Override public void onBillingError(int errorCode, Throwable throwable) {}
});

What we did above was to Remove Ads when the payment is successful.

Now, init the library and remove ads if already purchased –

java

mBillingProcessor.initialize();
if(mBillingProcessor.isPurchased("Your SKU Name")) relativelayout.removeView(mAdView);

You also need to override the onActivityResult() like this -

java

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  if (!mBillingProcessor.handleActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)) {
      super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
  }
}

Simple, isn’t it!?

Okay, we have learnt how to handle AdView removal with purchase flow, but how do we start or call the Purchase?? Well, simply call below method and that’s it ✌️ –

java

mBillingProcessor.purchase(MainActivity.this, "Your SKU Name");