Android Pay is coming

https://stripe.com/android-pay

by gwintrob • 11 years ago

150 44 11 years ago

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joshmn• 11 years ago

I've found myself more interested in Stripe's UI/UX than the product itself.

Not that the product isn't anything less than mint, it's just that their front-end developers are so amazing.

gwintrob• 11 years ago

The form highlight animation is sexy!

dmbass• 11 years ago

It's from Google's Polymer project https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/

traek• 11 years ago

That's the ripple animation from Material Design[1]--it looks good on an product page for Android.

[1] http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter...

Eclyps• 11 years ago

And I'm SO thankful for this. It really makes selling a client on the service much easier, since many of them seem to only care about fancy spash pages...

brettfarrow• 11 years ago

I've noticed that on their last few announcements. Their landing pages for announcements have been top notch.

soggypenny• 11 years ago

Yes, it's beautiful. However, looks like there's no form validation on the email submit. I just submitted "r" as an email address.

ceejayoz• 11 years ago

Not sure why you're getting downvotes, for such a slick page basic email address form validation is an odd omission.

nine_k• 11 years ago

As long as you can receive a confirmation email, any address could work :)

But basic \S+@\S+ check on the UI side won't hurt and would be courteous.

bliti• 11 years ago

Strange, its still working as you mentioned earlier. What a weird bug to leave out in the open like that.

Kiro2• 11 years ago

I agree. How do you learn to become such a great front-end developer?

VOYD• 11 years ago

No thanks.

wahsd2• 11 years ago

Wait. Again? Re-Relaunch of Google Wallet?

Yeezy20• 11 years ago

No, it's more like a sdk. Wallet is it's own app that uses pay. So you can integrate pay into things using nfc more easily. I am not sure on how apple pay works as a sdk.

objclxt• 11 years ago

On Android the Google Wallet app is being replaced by Android Pay, so it is more of a re-brand.

jamoes• 11 years ago

And Google Wallet was just a re-launch of Google Checkout.

I guess it's worth the risk of continual failure, because if they eventually do get a foot in the door it's incredibly lucrative. Taking a percentage of every payment someone makes is a pretty good incentive.

izacus• 11 years ago

Or maybe allowing Android users the same capabilities like Apple Pay has just makes sense?

wahsd2• 11 years ago

What's kind of laughable is that if Google hadn't been its half-baked self. They could have locked down electronic mobile payment, what, almost a decade ago now?

nly• 11 years ago

I'm curious how Android Pay works on the retail side. Does it use a traditional VISA payment terminal system or are Google running some sort of server-side payment hub?

I'm assuming, for instance, we won't see Android Pay integration in to Bitcoin apps any time soon.

zrail• 11 years ago

Based just on Google's blog post, this seems like another implementation of the standard that Apple helped create and push through with the banks and card networks for Apple Pay. They mention tokenization and virtual card numbers, which is exactly how Apple Pay works.

soylentcola• 11 years ago

And Google Wallet did before it.

smackfu• 11 years ago

Did Apple really push it through? They weren't mentioned when the spec was released, six months before Apple Pay was announced.

http://www.nfcworld.com/2014/03/11/328236/emvco-publishes-to...

dmayle3• 11 years ago

Yes, Apple Pay uses tokenization, no Apple neither created it nor pushed it through. Google Wallet 1.0 used issuer-side tokenization, and switched to HCE when the networks weren't interested in network-level tokenization. Yes, Apple participated in the spec but the most you can credit Apple with was smart negotiation, and taking advantage of lessons learned by Wallet.

yaeger• 11 years ago

With google being all about data mining and getting as much information on you as they possibly can, I am having the hardest time believing that google will introduce a payment system that cannot track peoples individual shopping behavior.

It was one of Apple's selling points that they do not see what you buy. They only handle the monetary transaction. Only the merchant and you know what was purchased etc.

It is funny to imagine google knowing this valuable information is running right through their service/device and they do not or cannot take a look. As a data miner that would be more than frustrating.

bengalister• 11 years ago

For payment in store, it is standard EMV contacless payment (with some specificities for HCE) like for contactless physical credit card. Therefore you should be able to pay with any NFC enabled Point Of Sale connected to payment networks (Visa/Mastercard at least I assume for Android Pay).

This payment solution relies on tokenization. Tokens are mapped to physical payment cards (Google will probably act as a Token Service Provider). Tokens once provisioned on the mobile hold among other things a Digitized Personal Account Number + a set of single use payment keys (or limited use keys) for payment.

lxgr2• 11 years ago

It would be very interesting to know if Google will indeed act as a TSP, or if they will delegate that to the card networks (like Apple does, IIRC).

stripeless• 11 years ago

Does this version have the arbitary "we hold you funds a-la paypal style-e"? functionality you have started to roll out to standard stripey?

Bud• 11 years ago

Read: Android Pay is being re-marketed until we find a way that we think might catch on. This time.

tonyhb• 11 years ago

You should be able to do this without stripe in a few lines of code. HTML5 has `requestAutocomplete` which, on Chrome, can load Google Wallet, fill out the payment form using a proxy card, and submit the information.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/requestautocomp...

It's not a complete solution (because it's only on chrome), but it's pretty cool and built in.

aliakhtar• 11 years ago

That API is awesome, and works for more than just payment info. Can't wait until its universally accepted.

PakG1• 11 years ago

Stripe is going to make boatloads of money. They're now going to be powering both Apple Pay and Android Pay? Wow. Let me get some stock on that sucker when they go public.

estefan• 11 years ago

Is stripe popular because it's cheaper than paypal and also doesn't have an API & payment flow that looks like a train wreck?

thesimon• 11 years ago

Probably not cheaper for larger customers, but the easy API & payment flow are for sure part of the success.

Kiro2• 11 years ago

Can you even use PayPal for accepting credit cards without redirecting the user to PayPal?

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