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New Google Pay features to enhance your payment flows- Google Developers Blog

May 21, 2025Jose Ugia
New Google Pay features to enhance your payment flows- Google Developers Blog
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Introduces Google Pay in Android WebViews, enabling native Android payment experiences and device tokens within in-app browsers. Enhances the Google Pay payment sheet with richer card art, names, and dark mode support. Expands the createButton API for Web with more customization options. Introduces a new API for displaying card-identifying information without a payment button. Adds support for Merchant-Initiated Transactions (MITs) to the Google Pay Online API, including user-facing details, device-independent tokens, and lifecycle notifications. Improves the test card suite for more relevant test cards in the `TEST` environment. Provides more fine-grained build time error logs and detailed runtime exceptions/error codes for debugging on Android. Launches new codelabs, Firebase Studio templates, and a learning pathway for web developers. Introduces the Google Pay API Status Dashboard. Enhances fraud detection by allowing chargeback data upload and enables built-in identity verification challenges for suspicious transactions. Plans to enhance API responses with more detailed risk information.

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