[IOS] Any plans about StoreKit 2?

[thekhegay]

Hello, j3k0!

Do you have any plans about StoreKit 2?

StoreKit 2 has a lot of breaking changes out of box: For example, new Transactions looks great and simple (there is no .purchased, .failed, .deferred, .restored)

func purchase(_ product: Product) async throws -> Transaction? {
    let result = try await product.purchase()

    switch result {
    case .success(let verification):
        // handle success
        ...
        return result

    case .userCancelled, .pending:
        // handle if needed

    default: break
}

Also, we can pass some custom data with transactions and store one:

let result = try await product.purchase(options::[.appAccountToken(yourAppToken))])

And: restore() changed to .sync() and works automatically.

But! StoreKit2 will be available only iOS 15+

[j3k0]

Yes, StoreKit 2 fixes many issues of the StoreKit API. It'll probably require a fresh implementation, but it is definitely something we will support. I hope we can provide StoreKit 2 support with a transparent failover to the legacy API. The plugin's API probably won't change as most of the new features are things that already exist on Android. I can't provide a date at the moment.

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[andypapas]

Do you have any updates on the plan for this? Would be great to be able to store the account UUID in the transactions.

[jfbloom22]

Is storekit 2 ready for us to start testing in v13? https://github.com/j3k0/cordova-plugin-purchase/issues/1204

[j3k0]

I looked into it a couple of month ago, the issue is that StoreKit 2 is only available for Swift (as opposed to Objective C). Integrating Swift into a Cordova plugin is a mess. It requires manual editing of the project's XCode project to generate a bridging header. In many cases, this is just not be possible at all. Until cordova improves on that front, StoreKit 2 cannot be integrated.

An option I see is to integrate it as a separate "payment adapter" plugin (like the Braintree adapter), so those who want to get into this trouble can chose to. But it looks like most users of this plugin are now using it through an another platform's compatibility layer (like capacitor). Then it might not be worth the trouble, because as far as I understood, the manual XCode project editing hack does not work with those platforms.

[jfbloom22]

Very interesting. I am working on integrating this plugin in my capacitor project right now. Sounds like StoreKit 2 is something that a native capacitor version of this plugin will be able to support more easily.