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Chromium Blog: December 2011
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News and developments from the open source browser project
In-App Payments Expands its Borders
Thursday, December 15, 2011
(Cross-posted on the
Official Google Code
and
Commerce
Blogs)
Since
Google In-App Payments
launched in July for developers in the United States, we’ve received great
feedback
on how easy it is to integrate as well as how simple it is for consumers to use. While the API has been off to a strong start, there’s been a growing demand for availability outside of the United States.
So starting today, we are opening developer enrollment for Google In-App Payments to 17 additional countries. In addition to the United States, developers from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom can now use the Google In-App Payments API to incorporate an in-context payment experience into applications on the
Chrome Web Store
and their own sites.
Developers using In-App Payments are
seeing strong conversions and revenue streams
thanks to these key features:
Ease of use
: the short payment process for consumers takes place right in the developer’s app or site.
Large existing user base
: there are millions of
Google Wallet
online users in over 140 countries.
Low fees
: developers pay just 5% on all transactions.
You can get started accepting payments in your web apps by
following the tutorial
and get answers to any questions in the
forum
. We look forward to expanding to even more countries in the future, as well as continuously working to improve the Google In-App Payments experience.
Posted by Pali Bhat, Product Manager, Google Commerce Team
Games, apps and runtimes come to Native Client
Friday, December 9, 2011
Updated on December 14th with the video of the event.
Since we
launched
Native Client late last summer, our team has been working hard to make the technology more useful to developers. Yesterday at an event held at Google we shared the progress we’ve made towards this goal and showcased work from some of the early adopters of the technology, including
Square Enix
,
Unity Technologies
, and
Bungie
.
One code base for all OSs
In September, we started supporting a set of core Pepper interfaces, suited for 2D graphics, audio, and compute-intensive applications. Since that release, we’ve shipped additional APIs and capabilities, providing native code with more of the capabilities available from JavaScript. These include hardware-accelerated 3D graphics via OpenGL ES 2.0, a mouse lock API, a full-screen API, and much more. One example of the kind of experience Native Client can currently support is
Bastion
, an award-winning role-playing game from Supergiant Games. Previously limited to Microsoft Windows® and Xbox® systems, the Native Client port of Bastion allows Supergiant to reach users on all popular desktop operating systems, with the safety and simplicity of the web.
Easy porting of previous work
If you have existing code bases in C, C++, or C#, Native Client now allows you to port your existing apps to the web while maintaining just one code base. This was particularly appealing to Spacetime Studios. They ported their multiplayer online game
Star Legends
to the web in less than two weeks from an existing code base of more than half a million lines of code. The side benefit of being able to maintain their existing development and testing infrastructure further accelerated their delivery of a shipping title.
More choices of programming languages
The community is actively involved in Native Client, porting some of the most popular application middleware. Ports include
Unity
and
Moai
game engines, programming language environments
Mono
and
Lua
, audio middleware such as
fmod
and
Wwise
, as well as the
Bullet physics engine
. These Native Client ports make the web more accessible to hundreds of thousands of application developers. At the event, we showcased upcoming applications from
Heartwood
,
Silvertree
,
Exit Strategy
, and
Dedalord
, who used those tools to bring their apps to the web with very little effort. We’ll continue to work with the community to get even more languages and middleware systems ported to Native Client.
We recognize that building a Native Client app is only the start of a successful app. That’s why we’ve enabled distribution of Native Client-based apps via the
Chrome Web Store
. The Chrome Web Store gives developers a simple, effective strategy to reach over 200 million active users of Google Chrome.
If all this sounds exciting, please visit our new documentation site at
gonacl.com
. There you’ll find a growing collection of tutorials, examples, videos, reference documentation, and much more.
Questions or suggestions? Join us in the
discussion forums
. We look forward to seeing some great new apps from Native Client developers.
Posted by Christian Stefansen, Product Manager
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