This is the starter kit for Android SDK.

This kit contains a simple Android application that displays car information using Smartcar's Android SDK.

Instructions

Before we get started, create an application on Smartcar's Developer Dashboard to get your API keys.

Note: On the dashboard, add a redirect uri on the credentials tab with the following format: sc + yourClientId + ://exchange. For example: sc42d24fb4-74e7-4e3b-b82a-913fa9345d1a://exchange.

Then, we can set these constants in strings.xml -

<string name="smartcar_auth_scheme">sc[yourClientId]</string>
<string name="client_id">[yourClientId]</string>

Next, we need to setup the custom URL scheme in the AndroidManifest.xml -

<activity android:name="com.smartcar.sdk.SmartcarCodeReceiver">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data
      android:host="@string/smartcar_auth_host"
      android:scheme="@string/smartcar_auth_scheme" />
  </intent-filter>
</activity>

Before setting up the client code, make sure to set up the server code. You can use any of our following back-end SDKs -

• Node SDK
• Python SDK
• Java SDK

Follow the setup instructions in the back-end README except for the redirect_uri. Make sure the redirect_uri environment variable in the back-end directory is the same as the one we have set above.

Now that the server is ready, you can set up the client (the React application).

Set the server uri in strings.xml. This should be from your back-end directory and is set to http://10.0.2.2:8000 by default. We do not set the redirect_uri to the localhost because the Android emulator runs in a VM, therefore localhost will be the emulator's own loopback address.

<string name="app_server">[yourAppServer]</string>

Make sure you have cloned this repo -

$ git clone git@github.com:smartcar/getting-started-android-sdk.git
$ cd getting-started-android-sdk/app

To install the required dependencies -

./gradlew build

Run the Android simulator within Android Studio! In our current set up, we are using Smartcar's test mode, so you can log in with any username and password and you will see information of a simulated vehicle.