Check Android inventory/subscription outside the app itself

Question

I would like to query the inventory of a user from outside the Android app, eg, on a server. Is there a token or a some sort of unique identifier that the android app can pass to the server, which can then be used to query the inventory directly from Google.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There's the official API:

https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/

Samples here:

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-publisher-api/tree/master/v2/java

To access the API we are using a "Service Account". It is a "Server-to-Server" kind of account, and it's configured using the UI at:

https://play.google.com/apps/publish/#ApiAccessPlace.