Android SDK

Successful marketing automation is essential to the future of your mobile app. Appboy helps you engage your users beyond the download. Visit the following links for details and we'll have you up and running in no time!

• Appboy Academy
• Technical Documentation
• Full Class Documentation

Components

• android-sdk-ui - the Appboy SDK user interface containing the Appboy jar.
• droidboy - a sample application which demonstrates how to use Appboy.
• hello-appboy - a sample gradle application demonstrating a simple use case of Appboy.

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. When you run your first build, the android-sdk-manager plugin will automatically install the proper Android build tools, setup your Android Support Library repository, etc. If you don't have your ANDROID_HOME variable properly set or don't have a local.properties folder with a valid sdk.dir folder, this plugin will also install the base SDK for you. Other than a bit of wasted disk space, it isn't bad if the plugin re-installs your Android SDK (it'll put it in ~/.android-sdk if you want to move it or delete it later), but either way, it's cleaner to have your ANDROID_HOME properly set before running the build. See the plugin repo for more information.
3. 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:1.5.+'
   ...
}

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:1.5.+'
}

Version Support

The Android SDK supports Android 2.2+ (Froyo and up).

Questions?

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