Quick Start - HOKO for Android

This document is just a quick start introduction to the HOKO for Android. You can read the full documentation at http://hokolinks.com/documentation#android.

To integrate HOKO in your app, just follow the 3 simple steps below.

1. Add HOKO to your project

Add HOKO to your gradle.build file:

// Build.gradle
dependencies {
	compile 'com.hokolinks:hoko:2.3.2'
}

In your Application subclass setup HOKO in the onCreate(...) method:

@Override
public void onCreate() {
	super.onCreate();
	Hoko.setup(this, "YOUR-ANDROID-TOKEN");
}

You can find the Android token under "Settings" when you open your app on the HOKO dashboard.

2. Setup the AndroidManifest.xml

To register a URL Scheme on your application you must add HokoActivity to your AndroidManifest.xml, making sure to replace your URL scheme with an appropriate scheme in reverse DNS notation (e.g. com.hoko.hokotestbed).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	package="com.bananas">

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

	<application
		android:name="com.bananas.BananasApplication">
		<!-- Your other activities go here -->
		<!-- Start of Hoko Code -->
		<activity
			android:name="com.hokolinks.activity.HokoActivity"
			android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true"
			android:launchMode="singleTask"
			android:noHistory="true"
			android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay">
			<intent-filter>
				<data android:scheme="bananas" />
				<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
				<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
				<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
			</intent-filter>
		</activity>
		<activity
			android:name="com.hokolinks.activity.HokoAppLinksActivity"
			android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true"
			android:launchMode="singleTask"
			android:noHistory="true"
			android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay">
			<intent-filter>
				<data
					android:host="bananas.hoko.link"
					android:scheme="http" />
				<data
					android:host="bananas.hoko.link"
					android:scheme="https" />
				<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
				<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
				<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
			</intent-filter>
		</activity>
		<receiver android:name="com.hokolinks.deeplinking.DeferredDeeplinkingBroadcastReceiver"
            		android:exported="true">
        		 <intent-filter>
                		<action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER" />
            		</intent-filter>
        	</receiver>

	</application>
</manifest>

3. Map your application.

To map routes to your Activities all you have to do is use the proper annotations.

// ProductActivity.java
@DeeplinkRoute("product/:product_id")
public class ProductActivity extends Activity {
	// You should map your variables with @DeeplinkRouteParameter
	@DeeplinkRouteParameter("product_id")
	private int mProductId;

	// If you want you can also use @DeeplinkQueryParameter to map query parameters
	@DeeplinkQueryParameter("product_price")
	private String mProductPrice;

	@Override
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		Hoko.deeplinking().inject(this);
	}
}

The previous example would match an incoming link like this product/29?product_price=19

This will make sure that any incoming deep links with a certain route format will map its variables to your annotated variables.

Full documentation

We recommend you to read the full documentation at http://support.hokolinks.com/quickstart/android/.