{"id":27237,"date":"2015-06-02T04:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe7950092697"},"modified":"2015-06-02T04:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:15:36","slug":"android-pay-unveiled-google-io-make-mobile-payments-ubiquitous-1433200536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/android-pay-unveiled-google-io-make-mobile-payments-ubiquitous-1433200536","title":{"rendered":"Android Pay Unveiled at Google I\/O Could Make Mobile Payments Ubiquitous"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In February, Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>reported<\/a> Google\u2019s preliminary announcement of Android Pay. Now, at the annual Google I\/O<\/a> event on May 28 and 29, Google officially announced<\/a> its upcoming payment platform and revealed more details.Android Pay isn\u2019t a separate payment app, but an open platform that enables developers to integrate mobile payments into their apps. In fact, Android Pay is built right into the core Android operating system. It will be available for download from Google Play soon, and included in the next version of the Android OS \u2013 dubbed Android M – expected to be released this fall.\u201c[W]e\u2019ve approached Android Pay the same way we approach every other part of the Android family \u2013 partnering with the ecosystem \u2013 bringing together mobile carriers, payment networks, banks and retailers to deliver you choice and flexibility,\u201d states the Google announcement.<\/p>\n

Android Pay will be supported by leading financial service providers, including American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Citi and Bank of America. It will support NFC payments and biometric authentication tools, and it\u2019s designed to be easy to use and seamlessly compatible with all sorts of Android apps.\u201cInstead of relying on you to load the app and unlock it with a PIN, Android Pay lets you simply tap your phone on an NFC terminal to approve the purchase,\u201d notes<\/a> Nicole Lee on Engadget<\/em>. \u201cIn addition, Google is also allowing Android Pay to be integrated in apps like Lyft, Grubhub and Wish, so users can easily use that to pay for things. I just used Android Pay here at Google I\/O, and I can say this: If it’s as easy to use in real life, then I suspect mobile payments are about to be a lot more ubiquitous.\u201d<\/p>\n

A question that comes immediately to mind is whether the new Android Pay framework will support bitcoin payments. Since Android Pay is not an app controlled by Google, but a platform that can be used by all app developers, nothing seems to prevent Bitcoin payment services from using Android Pay to make bitcoin payments easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make it easier for developers to add Android Pay to your favorite apps, we\u2019ve designed our platform to work with any payment processor,\u201d states the Google announcement. \u201cAnd we\u2019re partnering with top payments processors including Braintree, CyberSource, First Data, Stripe and Vantiv to make integration even easier.\u201d At least two of the payment processors mentioned, Stripe and Braintree<\/a>, integrate bitcoin payments.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the latest \u2018what\u2019s next\u2019 was unveiled at Google I\/O. Launching in the coming months, Android Pay will become the new mobile payment solution for consumers to make purchases with their Android devices,\u201d said Braintree\u2019s CTO Juan Benitez. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to share that we\u2019ve integrated Android Pay into the v.zero SDK to make it easier for our merchants to add it as a checkout option in their Android apps. We\u2019ve connected with Android Pay on our back end to reduce the number of API calls and provide a streamlined payment flow. Starting today, merchants can sign up for Braintree\u2019s private beta to be ready for Android Pay. With very little effort, merchants will be able to add Android Pay, in addition to credit and debit cards, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and bitcoin \u2013 all with a single integration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In February, Bitcoin Magazinereported Google\u2019s preliminary announcement of Android Pay. Now, at the annual Google I\/O event on May 28 and 29, Google officially announced its upcoming payment platform and revealed more details.Android Pay isn\u2019t a separate payment app, but an open platform that enables developers to integrate mobile payments into their apps. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3509,"featured_media":27236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1999,1473,245,999,551,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-27237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-developers","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-merchants","13":"tag-payments"},"author_data":{"id":3509,"name":"Giulio Prisco","nicename":"giulio-prisco","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d091b908741b627d89036dd43748bb5c5edcfe9f805501703e2c3af34dadfca?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/android-pay-unveiled-at-google-io-could-make-mobile-payments-ubiquitous.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}