I’ve seen similar posts from a while back that say that the only way to do this is to have the person actually purchase the subscription, and then I can process a refund. Is there any update on this, or is that still the only way to give a specific person a free subscription?
A friend of mine has a solution with an iPhone app… The person that requests the app for free gives my friend their UDID, and my friend puts it into a database. The app checks the database for the specific UDID each time it is run, and if it is there, the subscription content is provided. Otherwise, it must be purchased.
But this doesn’t seem feasible for Android, because Android devices don’t really have unique IDs; and I don’t know how a user can find this device ID on an Android, anyway.
Not a subscription to the best of my knowledge, unless you set them up with a test account. For refunds for in app managed items, you can control what a refund does however and hence it’s up to you.