Integrate Android Pay (Google Pay) into your React Native mobile app

Say hello to a better way to pay, by Google into React Native mobile App

Fast, simple checkout. Easy access to rewards and offers. One spot for purchases, passes, and payment methods. All of these are ways we’ve been working to make paying safer and easier for everyone, everywhere. And you can make the most of these features with the new Google Pay app for Android Mobile App.

Android Pay(Google Pay) have gained a lot of ground in the recent years and they’ve become the new standard for payments in mobile apps. If you have a native checkout experience in your apps, consider using them as your main method of payment. Otherwise, you’ll be missing on great opportunities.

As more and more users love the simple process of paying with these methods, React Native developers are facing the challenge of integrating Android Pay into their mobile apps.

While adding Android Pay into a Java or Kotlin codebase is very well-documented and hence, straightforward, making use of Android Pay on a React Native app is quite difficult for now. Mainly because there’s no documentation and very few Javascript libraries (which, frankly, were quite buggy). Adding Apple Pay to React Native apps is in the same boat.

Until now. React Native GPay represents a react native module which allows mobile developers to easily accept Android Pay in their react native apps. It takes advantage of the Payment Request protocol, which standardises the way merchants accept payments over the Internet.

I've tried the open-source library ourselves and we used it into one of my React Native Project. The documentation on the GitHub page is very comprehensive and it allows you to add payments to your app effortlessly. It describes exactly how to install the npm package and how to use it. It also lists all the differences between iOS and Android, so that you won’t go through the trouble of figuring them out by yourself.

In addition to purely accepting payments via credit cards, the React Native GPay project also has built-in support multi payment gateway Stripe or Braintree without add-ons, support for shipping addresses and shipping options, making the Javascript package ideal for mobile apps that deal with e-commerce, shipping, delivering, orders, etc.

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