Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps

Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet.

The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with Google Pay for Android native apps, according to a Monday (May 26) blog post.

Developers can now implement in Android applications callbacks with which they can update shipping options, taxes and total prices dynamically as users interact with the Google Pay sheet, as well as handling authorization feedback without closing the sheet, according to the post.

These callbacks are already supported on the web, and now they are supported in Android applications to streamline the checkout funnels, the post said.

“Dynamic callbacks enable a true ‘Express Checkout’ experience,” Dominik Mengelt, developer relations engineer for payments at Google, and Nik Heath, product solutions engineer at Google, said in the post.

By implementing dynamic callbacks on Android, developers can reduce friction by enabling a one-click experience and moving checkout upstream; increase accuracy by providing real-time shipping and tax pricing; and improve authorization by handing success or failure feedback within the Pay sheet to increase conversion, per the post.

“Dynamic callbacks bring the Google Pay developer platform on Android to parity with its capabilities on the web,” Mengelt and Heath said in the post.

The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Apple Pay @11: Usage Is Up, but Competitors Are Gaining Ground” found that mobile wallets such as Google Pay are breaking into the mainstream.

The October report found that 31% of consumers said they had used a mobile wallet in-store in the last week. That figure was more than double the share of consumers who said that in 2024, according to the report.

The share of consumers who said they had used Google Pay in the last week also doubled year over year, per the report.

Another PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Next-Gen Commerce Playbook: Turning Checkout Into a Compounding Customer Loop,” found that one-click checkout and stored credentials are critical for reducing cart abandonment and enhancing conversion rates.

Eighty-four percent of shoppers prioritize one-click options, and 80% use stored credentials, according to the report.