Android Sinch SDK - Installation

This is documentation how to easily implement our SDK for chat and for push features.

Prerequisites

Android Studio and Android SDK tools available here .
Android 5.0 Lollipop - min SDK 21
Access to SDK GitHub repository

Create Android Studio project

Create a new Android Studio project using the 'Empty activity' template.

Setting up Maven and adding dependencies

In your Android project tree, open the settings.gradle file and add the following code to the repositories element under dependencyResolutionManagement:

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maven({
   url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sinchlabs/sinch-chat-android-sdk/master/releases"
   credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials) {
      name = "Authorization"
      value = "Bearer {your github personal token}"
   }
   authentication {
      header(HttpHeaderAuthentication)
   }
})

Next, open the application's build.gradle file and add the following line to the dependencies element:

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implementation 'com.sinch.chat.sdk:sinch-chat-sdk:{version}'

Save both files and build your project.

Next, you must initialize your solution.