Question

I am new with Android programming and especially with PayPal. I got an application that was tasked to troubleshoot – despite being new to Android, is crashing at this line:

initWithAppID(this.getBaseContext(), appID, PayPal.ENV_SANDBOX);

Firstly, PayPal.ENV_SANDBOX always returns a 0 which I am not sure if its suppose to. Secondly, why is it always crashing there? I have searched online for the reason, people says its because it did not fully initialized thats why its failing. Now I would like to know what I need to do if I cant initialize this library?

I am using Eclipse IDE, testing on a Samsung Galaxy Tab Android 2.2

Answer 1

Don’t know if this will help but this is how I fixed it while testing with PayPal.ENV_NONE (from https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/blob/master/Android/PayPalPlugin/src/com/phonegap/plugin/mpl.java)

PayPal pp = PayPal.getInstance();
if (pp == null) {
    try {
        pp = PayPal.initWithAppID(getApplicationContext(), "", PayPal.ENV_NONE);
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    pp.setShippingEnabled(false);
}

Then when creating the button:

PayPal pp = PayPal.getInstance();
CheckoutButton cb = pp.getCheckoutButton(
        getBaseContext(), 
        PayPal.BUTTON_194x37, 
        CheckoutButton.TEXT_PAY);
cb.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    PayPalPayment payment = new PayPalPayment();
    // set subtotal etc ...
    Intent i = PayPal.getInstance().checkout(payment,getApplicationContext());
    startActivityForResult(i, 1);
});

Hope that helps somehow