title: Transfer In App Purchases from one app to another on Android
body: <p>Okay, something really dumb happened to my friend.</p>
  
  <p>He submitted an Android application a few weeks ago that offers <strong>In-App Purchases</strong> to the user.</p>
  
  <p>Now, he needed to update the <code>.apk</code> to fix a bug, but he actually <strong>lost the <em>keystore</em></strong> that he used to sign the application the other day (what a dumbass...). He tells me it's definitely lost. He exhausted all options to find or restore it, but without success. So, as he understands, <strong>the only way to submit the update is to actually create a new application in the Google Play Developer Console</strong>. He is so dumb, I always tell him to do backups of important files, he just won't listen (wow, really, such a blockhead...)!!!! <em>sigh...</em></p>
  
  <p>Luckily, he only had a handful of users who actually purchased something in his app during that time. However, I would like to know (for my friend) if there is any way to <strong>transfer the In App Purchases from the same user from the old app to the new one</strong>, so that the users who bought something in the app and now want to update it, won't get punished for his stupidity and have to purchase the same items again....</p>