Getting Started with Android SDK

REVE Chat’s Android SDK can be seamlessly integrated with your mobile apps and enable your team deliver in-app messaging to your app users for better engagement and customer support.

Getting started with Android SDK

This tutorial shows you how to add Android chat SDK and get started in a few minutes.

Necessary or minimum requirements:

  1. Android Studio
  2. Minimum SDK version should be 14 or above
  3. SDK version (Compile, Build, Target) should be 26 or above

Android SDK integration process

Step 1:

To integrate Android SDK with your mobile app, please follow the below mentioned steps:

Add the Android SDK url in your Project level build gradle file’s repositories section as shown below:

If android studio version less than Android Studio Arctic Fox

In app build.gradle, you can add the repositories

allprojects {
      repositories {
      ……
      maven {
         url "https://jfrog-artifact.revechat.com/artifactory/artifactory/"
      }
   }
}

Otherwise

In settings.gradle, you can add the repositories

dependencyResolutionManagement {                   
    repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        ….
        maven { 
            Url  "https://jfrog-artifact.revechat.com/artifactory/artifactory/"
        } 

    }
}

Step 2:

Add Design support library and REVE Chat Android SDK as dependency in your App level build.gradle file :

dependencies {
    …….
    implementation('com.revesoft.revechatsdk:revechatsdk:1.0.14.2.10-snapshot')

}

Note- You can also use Design support library greater then 26 also according to your project build sdk version.

Step 3:

Add following lines from where you want to start the chat.

//Initializing with account id
ReveChat.init("account id");
//Creating visitor info
VisitorInfo visitorInfo = new VisitorInfo.Builder()
.name("your name").email("[email protected]")
.phoneNumber("your number").build();
 
//Set visitor info
ReveChat.setVisitorInfo(visitorInfo);
 
//Optional
//If want to Receive push notification from Reve Chat.
//Add your device token id(registration Id)
//You also need to do step 4.
ReveChat.setDeviceTokenId("deviceTokenId");
 
//starting chat window
startActivity(new Intent(this, ReveChatActivity.class));

Step 4:

Extra Customization (Optional)

Add primary and primary Dark in your color.xml, if already not defined:

<color name="revechatsdk_colorPrimary">#YourColor</color>
<color name="revechatsdk_colorPrimaryDark">#YourColorDark</color>

To change chat window’s content as per your need:

<color name="revechatsdk_color_chat_background">#e9e9e9</color>
<color name="revechatsdk_color_sending_msg">#b2dfea</color>
<color name="revechatsdk_color_receiving_msg">#ffffff</color>

//Chat action bar head text
<string name="revechatsdk_title_chat_window">CHAT WITH US</string>
//If the agents are offline, the action bar head text
<string name="revechatsdk_title_offline_window">Leave Us a Message</string>