BAKit-Android

Engage and Retain Mobile Users

Connect with customers using BoardActive's exclusive location-based marketing platform.

Installation

BoardActive for Android supports APK 15 and greater.

SDK 

Download and add the BoardActive into your project using Jitpack Repository. Building with Android Studio is required. 

Dependencies

Your app must include Google Play Services. Our Google Play Services Overview contains the full setup and initialization instructions. 

JitPack is the repository service that we use, you will add a few lines to the gradle files to import our SDK into your project. (Instructions are available upon request for Maven, sbt, leiningen)

/ Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'
        //Add the following to your Top-Level build.gradle
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.1.0'
    }
}
// Add JitPack repository to top level build.gradle
	allprojects {
		repositories {
		...
		maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

Include the following into your App-level build.gradle

dependencies {...// This line imports the BoardActive Android SDK to your project, it acts as if you added our source code to your projectimplementation 'com.github.BoardActive:backpack-android:-SNAPSHOT'...}

How to Use This SDK

Permissions

BoardActive will ask for your user location permissions the first time it launches.

Firebase Cloud Messaging

You should have installed Firebase Cloud Messaging to your app so it can receive BoardActive notifications.
 

Launch BAKit Service

Include the following into your MainActivity.java

private BoardActive mBoardActive;

    public final static String APP_KEY = "ADD_APP_KEY_HERE";
    public final static String APP_ID = "ADD_APP_ID_HERE";
    public final static String APP_VERSION = Build.VERSION.RELEASE;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Instantiate BoardActive
	mBoardActive = new BoardActive(MainActivity.this);

        // Retrieve Firebase Token
        String fcmToken = FirebaseInstanceId.getInstance().getToken();
      
      	//Initialize BoardActive
        mBoardActive.initialize(
          fcmToken, 
          APP_KEY, 
          APP_ID, 
          APP_VERSION
        );

      	//Register Device
        mBoardActive.RegisterDevice(new BoardActive.RegisterCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Object value) {
                Log.d("RegisterDevice", value.toString());
            }
        }, null);
    }

Example App

There is an example app provided for Android here.

Setup and Configuration

• Visit BoardActive Github to view our open source code

Customer Support

• Please contact us at BoardActive with any questions you may have or email us at info@boardactive.com. We're only a click away!