how to cancel an in-app test purchase on android?

Question

Until june 20th 2016 i was able to cancel test purchases done in my app. Doing multiple in-app purchases (not consumable) from the same test account made it easy to develop

Answer 1

I went into the main Google Play Console page and clicked on Order Management. Under that I was able to select all test purchases and Refund them. I'm the primary developer of the app so I have access. If you are a tester you'd probably have to contact the support team and request that they refund your order.

Answer 2

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/30178861/326904 @mttmllns

No need to write any special consumption code. Just use the adb command for clearing the Google Play Store data:

adb shell pm clear com.android.vending

Answer 3

The queryPurchaseHistoryAsync method still finds test orders I've made over the last year, despite having long ago consumed, refunded, and revoked them. One precaution I've found helpful is clearing the data in the Google Play Store app (settings/apps/google play store/storage/clear data). queryPurchaseHistoryAsync pulls obsolete purchase data from here, although only the non-networking (and completely unreliable I've found) queryPurchases is supposed to do this. You may have to add additional code to your app after all, but it doesn't have to be much.

With the dropping of support for Trivial Drive 2 (the link in the docs takes you to a '404 page does not exist' error, the github files are archived, and updating to billing:2.1.0 will give you a vending import compile error in the IabHelper class), answers to this popular question involving IabHelper might be considered obsolete. Billing is a lot simpler now if you follow the basic code pieces in the docs starting here https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_overview with no messy helper classes. One persistent issue is a 'Both methods have same erasure, yet neither overides the other' method clash error you may run into with this implementation, see my solution here 'Both methods have same erasure, yet neither overides the other' method clash error in SkuDetailsResponseListener().

Once you have the newest billing code implemented, you can create a hidden trigger in your production app to call queryPurchaseHistoryAsync to get a purchaseHistoryRecordList. Then call consumeAsync for each item in this list. Here is the barebones code to consume all test orders, allowing multiple tests of your nonconsumables:

billingClient.queryPurchaseHistoryAsync(BillingClient.SkuType.INAPP,
   new PurchaseHistoryResponseListener() {
      @Override
      public void onPurchaseHistoryResponse(BillingResult billingResult,
         List<PurchaseHistoryRecord> purchaseHistoryRecordList){                                            
         if (billingResult.getResponseCode() == BillingClient.BillingResponseCode.OK
             && purchaseHistoryRecordList != null) {
             for (PurchaseHistoryRecord purchaserecord : purchaseHistoryRecordList) {
                 if(purchaserecord!=null){
                 ConsumeParams consumeParams =
                     ConsumeParams.newBuilder()
                    .setPurchaseToken(purchaserecord.getPurchaseToken())
                    .setDeveloperPayload(purchaserecord.getDeveloperPayload())
                    .build();                                                                 
                     billingClient.consumeAsync(consumeParams, consumelistener);
}}}}});