Summary

This is the Android SDK of adjust™. You can read more about adjust™ at adjust.com.

Example app

There is an example app inside the example directory. You can open the Android project to see an example on how the adjust SDK can be integrated.

Basic Installation

These are the minimal steps required to integrate the adjust SDK into your Android project. We are going to assume that you use Android Studio for your Android development and target an Android API level 9 (Gingerbread) or later.

If you're using the Maven Repository you can start with step 3.

1. Get the SDK

Download the latest version from our releases page. Extract the archive in a folder of your choice.

2. Create the Adjust project

In the Android Studio menu select File → Import Module....

In the Source directory field, locate the folder you extracted in step 1. Select and choose the folder ./android_sdk/Adjust/adjust. Make sure the module name :adjust appears before finishing.

The adjust module should be imported into your Android Studio project afterwards.

3. Add the adjust library to your project

Open the build.gradle file of your app and find the dependencies block. Add the following line:

compile project(":adjust")

If you are using Maven, add this line instead:

compile 'com.adjust.sdk:adjust-android:4.1.2'

4. Add Google Play Services

Since the 1st of August of 2014, apps in the Google Play Store must use the Google Advertising ID to uniquely identify devices. To allow the adjust SDK to use the Google Advertising ID, you must integrate the Google Play Services. If you haven't done this yet, follow these steps:

1. Open the build.gradle file of your app and find the dependencies block. Add the following line:

   compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.0.0'
   

   If you don't need all of the Google Play Services, you can avoid dex issues by using only the ads part:

   compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:7.0.0'
   

   

2. Skip this step if you are using version 7 or later of Google Play Services: In the Package Explorer open the AndroidManifest.xml of your Android project. Add the following meta-data tag inside the <application> element.

   <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
              android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

   

5. Add permissions

In the Package Explorer open the AndroidManifest.xml of your Android project. Add the uses-permission tag for INTERNET if it's not present already.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

If you are not targeting the Google Play Store, add both of these permissions instead:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

If you are using Proguard, add these lines to your Proguard file:

-keep class com.adjust.sdk.** { *; }
-keep class com.google.android.gms.common.** { *; }
-keep class com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.** { *; }

If you are not targeting the Google Play Store, you can remove the com.google.android.gms rules.

6. Add broadcast receiver

In your AndroidManifest.xml add the following receiver tag inside the application tag.

<receiver
    android:name="com.adjust.sdk.AdjustReferrerReceiver"
    android:exported="true" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

We use this broadcast receiver to retrieve the install referrer, in order to improve conversion tracking.

If you are already using a different broadcast receiver for the INSTALL_REFERRER intent, follow these instructions to add the Adjust receiver.

7. Integrate Adjust into your app

To start with, we'll set up basic session tracking.

Basic Setup

We recommend using a global android Application class to initialize the SDK. If don't have one in your app already, follow these steps:

1. Create a class that extends Application.

2. Open the AndroidManifest.xml file of your app and locate the <application> element.

3. Add the attribute android:name and set it to the name of your new application class pefixed by a dot.

   In our example app we use an Application class named GlobalApplication, so the manifest file is configured as:

    <application
      android:name=".GlobalApplication"
      ... >
        ...
   </application>

   

In your Application class find or create the onCreate method and add the following code to initialize the adjust SDK:

import com.adjust.sdk.Adjust;
import com.adjust.sdk.AdjustConfig;

public class YourApplicationClass extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        String appToken = "{YourAppToken}";
        String environment = AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_SANDBOX;
        AdjustConfig config = new AdjustConfig(this, appToken, environment);
        Adjust.onCreate(config);
    }
}

Replace {YourAppToken} with your app token. You can find this in your dashboard.

Depending on whether you build your app for testing or for production, you must set environment with one of these values:

String environment = AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_SANDBOX;
String environment = AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_PRODUCTION;

Important: This value should be set to AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_SANDBOX if and only if you or someone else is testing your app. Make sure to set the environment to AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_PRODUCTION just before you publish the app. Set it back to AdjustConfig.ENVIRONMENT_SANDBOX when you start developing and testing it again.

We use this environment to distinguish between real traffic and test traffic from test devices. It is very important that you keep this value meaningful at all times! This is especially important if you are tracking revenue.

Adjust Logging

You can increase or decrease the amount of logs you see in tests by calling setLogLevel on your AdjustConfig instance with one of the following parameters:

config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.VERBOSE);   // enable all logging
config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.DEBUG);     // enable more logging
config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.INFO);      // the default
config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.WARN);      // disable info logging
config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.ERROR);     // disable warnings as well
config.setLogLevel(LogLevel.ASSERT);    // disable errors as well

8. Update your activities

To provide proper session tracking it is required to call certain Adjust methods every time any Activity resumes or pauses. Otherwise the SDK might miss a session start or session end. In order to do so you should follow these steps for each Activity of your app:

1. Open the source file of your Activity.
2. Add the import statement at the top of the file.
3. In your Activity's onResume method call Adjust.onResume. Create the method if needed.
4. In your Activity's onPause method call Adjust.onPause. Create the method if needed.

After these steps your activity should look like this:

import com.adjust.sdk.Adjust;
// ...
public class YourActivity extends Activity {
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        Adjust.onResume();
    }
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        Adjust.onPause();
    }
    // ...
}

Repeat these steps for every Activity of your app. Don't forget these steps when you create new Activities in the future. Depending on your coding style you might want to implement this in a common superclass of all your Activities.

9. Build your app

Build and run your Android app. In your LogCat viewer you can set the filter tag:Adjust to hide all other logs. After your app has launched you should see the following Adjust log: Install tracked

Additional Features

Once you have integrated the adjust SDK into your project, you can take advantage of the following features.

10. Add tracking of custom events

You can use adjust to track any event in your app. Suppose you want to track every tap on a button. You would have to create a new event token in your dashboard. Let's say that event token is abc123. In your button's onClick method you could then add the following lines to track the click:

AdjustEvent event = new AdjustEvent("abc123");
Adjust.trackEvent(event);

The event instance can be used to configure the event even more before tracking it.

11. Add callback parameters

You can register a callback URL for your events in your dashboard. We will send a GET request to that URL whenever the event gets tracked. You can add callback parameters to that event by calling addCallbackParameter on the event instance before tracking it. We will then append these parameters to your callback URL.

For example, suppose you have registered the URL http://www.adjust.com/callback then track an event like this:

AdjustEvent event = new AdjustEvent("abc123");

event.addCallbackParameter("key", "value");
event.addCallbackParameter("foo", "bar");

Adjust.trackEvent(event);

In that case we would track the event and send a request to:

http://www.adjust.com/callback?key=value&foo=bar

It should be mentioned that we support a variety of placeholders like {android_id} that can be used as parameter values. In the resulting callback this placeholder would be replaced with the AndroidID of the current device. Also note that we don't store any of your custom parameters, but only append them to your callbacks. If you haven't registered a callback for an event, these parameters won't even be read.

You can read more about using URL callbacks, including a full list of available values, in our callbacks guide.

12. Partner parameters

You can also add parameters to be transmitted to network partners, for the integrations that have been activated in your adjust dashboard.

This works similarly to the callback parameters mentioned above, but can be added by calling the addPartnerParameter method on your AdjustEvent instance.

AdjustEvent event = new AdjustEvent("abc123");

event.addPartnerParameter("key", "value");
event.addPartnerParameter("foo", "bar");

Adjust.trackEvent(event);

You can read more about special partners and these integrations in our guide to special partners.

13. Add tracking of revenue

If your users can generate revenue by tapping on advertisements or making in-app purchases you can track those revenues with events. Lets say a tap is worth one Euro cent. You could then track the revenue event like this:

AdjustEvent event = new AdjustEvent("abc123");
event.setRevenue(0.01, "EUR");
Adjust.trackEvent(event);

This can be combined with callback parameters of course.

When you set a currency token, adjust will automatically convert the incoming revenues into a reporting revenue of your choice. Read more about currency conversion here.

You can read more about revenue and event tracking in the event tracking guide.

14. Set up deep link reattributions

You can set up the adjust SDK to handle deep links that are used to open your app. We will only read certain adjust specific parameters. This is essential if you are planning to run retargeting or re-engagement campaigns with deep links.

For each activity that accepts deep links, find the onCreate method and add the folowing call to adjust:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Intent intent = getIntent();
    Uri data = intent.getData();
    Adjust.appWillOpenUrl(data);
    //...
}

15. Enable event buffering

If your app makes heavy use of event tracking, you might want to delay some HTTP requests in order to send them in one batch every minute. You can enable event buffering with your AdjustConfig instance:

AdjustConfig config = new AdjustConfig(this, appToken, environment);

config.setEventBufferingEnabled(true);

Adjust.onCreate(config);

16. Set listener for attribution changes

You can register a listener to be notified of tracker attribution changes. Due to the different sources considered for attribution, this information can not be provided synchronously. The simplest way is to create a single anonymous listener:

Please make sure to consider our applicable attribution data policies.

With the AdjustConfig instance, before starting the SDK, add the anonymous listener:

AdjustConfig config = new AdjustConfig(this, appToken, environment);

config.setOnAttributionChangedListener(new OnAttributionChangedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onAttributionChanged(AdjustAttribution attribution) {
    }
});

Adjust.onCreate(config);

Alternatively, you could implement the OnAttributionChangedListener interface in your Application class and set it as listener:

AdjustConfig config = new AdjustConfig(this, appToken, environment);
config.setOnAttributionChangedListener(this);
Adjust.onCreate(config);

The listener function will be called when the SDK receives the final attribution information. Within the listener function you have access to the attribution parameter. Here is a quick summary of its properties:

• String trackerToken the tracker token of the current install.
• String trackerName the tracker name of the current install.
• String network the network grouping level of the current install.
• String campaign the campaign grouping level of the current install.
• String adgroup the ad group grouping level of the current install.
• String creative the creative grouping level of the current install.
• String clickLabel the click label of the current install.

17. Disable tracking

You can disable the adjust SDK from tracking any activities of the current device by calling setEnabled with parameter false. This setting is remembered between sessions.

Adjust.setEnabled(false);

You can check if the adjust SDK is currently enabled by calling the function isEnabled. It is always possible to activate the adjust SDK by invoking setEnabled with the enabled parameter as true.

18. Offline mode

You can put the adjust SDK in offline mode to suspend transmission to our servers, while retaining tracked data to be sent later. While in offline mode, all information is saved in a file, so be careful not to trigger too many events while in offline mode.

You can activate offline mode by calling setOfflineMode with the parameter true.

Adjust.setOfflineMode(true);

Conversely, you can deactivate offline mode by calling setOfflineMode with false. When the adjust SDK is put back in online mode, all saved information is send to our servers with the correct time information.

Unlike disabling tracking, this setting is not remembered bettween sessions. This means that the SDK is in online mode whenever it is started, even if the app was terminated in offline mode.

License

The adjust SDK is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2012-2015 adjust GmbH, http://www.adjust.com

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