IP Messaging Demo Application Overview

Getting Started

Welcome to the IP Messaging Demo application. This application demonstrates a basic chat client with the ability to create and join channels, invite other members into the channels and exchange messages.

What you'll minimally need to get started:

• A clone of this repository
• A way to create an IP Messaging Service Instance and generate client tokens
• Gradle installation
• Google Play Services library : Follow the instructions here

Building

Make sure correct Google packages are installed

In Android SDK Manager make sure you have installed Android Support Repository and Google Repository under Extras.

Set up gradle wrapper to use correct gradle version.

Run

./gradlew wrapper

Set the value of ACCESS_TOKEN_SERVICE_URL

Set the value of ACCESS_TOKEN_SERVICE_URL in ip-messaging-demo-android/gradle.properties file to point to a valid Access-Token server.

Create that file if it doesn't exist with the following contents:

ACCESS_TOKEN_SERVICE_URL=http://companyfoo.com/get-token/

NOTE: no need for quotes around the URL, they will be added automatically.

You can also pass this parameter to gradle during build without need to create a properties file, as follows:

gradle -PACCESS_TOKEN_SERVICE_URL=http://companyfoo.com/get-token/ build

Add google-services.json

Generate google-services.json file and place it under ip-messaging-demo-android/.

Build

Run gradle build to fetch Twilio SDK files and build application.

Android Studio

You can import this project into Android Studio if you so desire by selecting Import Project (Eclipse ADT, Gradle, etc) from the menu and then build using Studio's Build menu.