Good morning,
Earlier and innocently, I wondered how to generate income without any ads or in-app purchases.
I thought of a donation system with Paypal for instance. Unfortunately, that’s absolutely new for me and I have no idea of what plugin install or which provider choose.
From your past experiences, could you fill me in ?
Thanks a lot. ~ Apologizes for the bad english
Well, Apple banned dontations from their apps back in 2010 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09charity.html?_r=0).
So there are only a few possible options:
Create normal in App purchases with various prices and let Apple and Google take their cut. (easiest but you loose alot of money)
Create a webview and open a website which handles the donation process. (greater effort for you and your customers)
Ignore Apple and check out the options Google has to offer.
There might be more possibilities, but that are the ones I’m aware of.
Greetings
Torben 
Thank you
Anyway, currently, I can’t build app for Iphone, then the donation system still available doesn’t it ?
I could install in-app purchases but buyable data (like coins or bonus) are stored in the phone itself. An “expert” may enter within it to manipulate these benefits at will, couldn’t he ?
~ Apologizes for the bad english
Well, you would need to do some research on the topic. Not quite sure if Google has restrictions concerning the topic.
In general manipulation of ingame currency isn’t a real problem as long as your game is single player only (people that go as far as “hacking” the saved data wont pay anyways), the bigger problem is something like hacking highscores (as it effects the whole player base). In both cases you can use encryption methods to secure the saved data.
Take a look at this topic:
Well, Apple banned dontations from their apps back in 2010 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09charity.html?_r=0).
So there are only a few possible options:
Create normal in App purchases with various prices and let Apple and Google take their cut. (easiest but you loose alot of money)
Create a webview and open a website which handles the donation process. (greater effort for you and your customers)
Ignore Apple and check out the options Google has to offer.
There might be more possibilities, but that are the ones I’m aware of.
Greetings
Torben
Thank you
Anyway, currently, I can’t build app for Iphone, then the donation system still available doesn’t it ?
I could install in-app purchases but buyable data (like coins or bonus) are stored in the phone itself. An “expert” may enter within it to manipulate these benefits at will, couldn’t he ?
~ Apologizes for the bad english
Well, you would need to do some research on the topic. Not quite sure if Google has restrictions concerning the topic.
In general manipulation of ingame currency isn’t a real problem as long as your game is single player only (people that go as far as “hacking” the saved data wont pay anyways), the bigger problem is something like hacking highscores (as it effects the whole player base). In both cases you can use encryption methods to secure the saved data.
Take a look at this topic: