How to offer free and paid Android app on Google Play?

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It’s my first app and I couldn’t find the answer anywhere.

The app is ready for distribution on Google Play. It has two versions: free (with ads) and paid (no ads).

I created the app in the Developer Console and started a closed beta test.

I thought I would upgrade the two versions (free and paid) and that the store would take care of things to change the version when the user makes the payment.

But the console does not allow you to upload both versions.

Hence the question: how to offer a app with free and paid versions?

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    In fact, what companies do is launch 2 apps. One with advertising and the other without advertising but with a certain value. You have to be careful that once released being free, there is no way to launch it again with a specific value.

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    Complementing the comment, you can generate two apps with different id’s and based on the same code but with different functionality if applicable. For this you need to configure the Flavors, da para fazer muita coisa. I recommend taking a look at this mine answer about Flavors

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    utilize flavors for this. Best means to accomplish what you want.

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I had imagined that the two versions would go up to the same APP on the Console and Play would take care of exchanging one version for the other, when the user made the purchase.

After reading the comments and searching a little more, I understood that the free and paid versions (or any variation that results more than one APK), are considered two apps even if the difference is only the presence of banners (in the free version).

So the correct answer is:

To offer free and paid apps on Google Play, you need to create an entry for each and handle each app individually on the console.

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