Unmantained projects and deprecated versions

[obigu]

From August 2nd Google Play Billing v4 can't be used for new apps following the 2 year deprecation cycle (https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/deprecation-faq).

Currently, both Java projects TrivialDrive and ClassyTaxi are on v4 and were updated more than 2 years ago which leaves no valid sample implementation.

On this comment from May 22, @cka-dev promised they would be updated "in the coming months". https://github.com/android/play-billing-samples/issues/532#issuecomment-1133477982

If Google is going to follow a 2 year deprecation policy forcing developers to refactor our working implementations, can you at least keep your own projects up to date with a tested and stable implementation that we can use as reference?

I'd expect it's in Google's best interest users have the best IAP experience and can spend their money without friction.

[solodon4]

Google isn't playing by their own rules: they force everyone onto 2 year version update cycle, yet with their endless money flow they themselves don't have enough resources to keep their samples updated accordingly. I bet these samples don't even have owners inside Google!

Hey, Google! Care to prove me wrong?