Android SDK

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Components

• android-sdk-base - the Braze SDK base analytics library.
• android-sdk-ui - the Braze SDK user interface library for in-app messages, push, and the news feed.
• droidboy - a sample app demonstrating how to use Braze in-depth.
• hello-appboy - a sample app demonstrating a basic Braze integration.
• china-push-sample - a sample app demonstrating the Braze + Baidu push integration.
• android-sdk-unity - a library that enables Braze SDK integrations on Unity.
• samples - a folder containing several sample apps for various integration options.

Building and Running the Sample Applications

1. Make sure the ANDROID_HOME environment variable is set to the location of your installed SDK or you have a local.properties file which defines the sdk.dir property. You can check this by running echo $ANDROID_HOME, or echo %ANDROID_HOME% in Windows.
2. To assemble the UI library and the Droidboy APK, run ./gradlew assemble (use gradlew.bat on Windows). You can find assembled files in the build/ subdirectories of the android-sdk-ui and droidboy projects. You can also use the installDebug task if you have a device or emulator connected to adb and want to run Droidboy or Hello-Appboy. You can see other available tasks by running ./gradlew tasks.

Remote repository for gradle

The version should match the git version tag, or the most recent version noted in the changelog. An example dependency declaration is:

repositories {
   maven { url "http://appboy.github.io/appboy-android-sdk/sdk" }
   ...
}

dependencies {
   compile 'com.appboy:android-sdk-ui:2.2.+'
   ...
}

Installing android-sdk-ui to Your Local Maven Repository

To install the UI library as an AAR file to your local maven repository, run the install task with ./gradlew install. You can reference it with groupId com.appboy and artifactId android-sdk-ui. The version should match the git version tag, or the most recent version noted in the changelog. An example dependency declaration is:

repositories {
   mavenLocal()
   ...
}

dependencies {
  compile 'com.appboy:android-sdk-ui:2.2.+'
}

Version Support

The Android SDK supports Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich and up).

Braze uses Font Awesome 4.3.0 for in-app message icons. Check out the cheat sheet to browse available icons.

Braze requires either a custom IAppboyImageLoader or Facebook's Fresco image library to display animated gif images. Fresco is not included nor enabled by default in the Braze library, and must be included and enabled explicitly by the parent app. Braze supports Fresco 0.6.0 through 1.3.0.

Questions?

If you have questions, please contact support@braze.com.