Android

Getting started

For a detailed documentation of all SDK function please see the Api Documentation

How to migrate to a new SDK versions

Here you can find information about how to upgrade to a new SDK version.

Example App Source Code

You can find a sample App implementation of the SDK in Kotlin. If you have to use Java you can find a minimalistic sample App Java.

For the sample App you need to provide a baseUrl, a clientId and a Set of (SSL) certificate’s. All informations can be found here

Installation

Grab the latest SDK via Gradle:

implementation 'com.sensorberg.smartspaces:sdk:VERSION'

to let Gradle download the SDK from our servers. You can find the latest VERSION on our Maven Repository. You also need to create a global gradle.properties file in USER_HOME/.gradle/

MAVEN_USERNAME=<username>
MAVEN_PASSWORD=<password>

replace <username> and <password> with the credentials provided by us.

To setup the maven repository in your app you have to open the build.gradle file of your app module (not the root) and add the following snippet:

repositories {
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    maven { url "https://maven.tapkey.com" }
    maven {
        url "https://maven.sensorberg.io/artifactory/smartspaces/"
        credentials {
            username = MAVEN_USERNAME
            password = MAVEN_PASSWORD
        }
    }
}

Because of the changes and improvements of the Bluetooth API and BLE with Android 5.0 the Android minSdkVersion for our SDK is 21. So your project needs to set the minSdkVersion also to 21 or higher.

You need also to add packagingOptions to the app build.gradle.

packagingOptions {
  exclude 'META-INF/lib_release.kotlin_module'
  exclude 'META-INF/library_release.kotlin_module'
}

SDK Initialization

Use the SmartSpacesSdk.Builder to initialize the SDK.

Kotlin
val certificates: Set<String> = ...
SmartSpacesSdk.Builder(application, baseUrl, clientId, certificates)
	.build()
Java

You need to provide the baseUrl of the server, the clientId to authenticate the app at the server and the (SSL) certificate of the server. All this information will be provided by us.

Our SDK is Kotlin and Coroutines first. So the main API will offer suspend functions or return Flow. We also provide support functions that uses Callback API or LiveData in case you can not use Coroutines (or even Kotlin).

Permissions

Following permissions will be merged to your projects AndroidManifest.xml automagicaly by Gradle

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

The only thing you have to do is to ask the user for location permission to use the SDK.

Logging

We are using Timber for logging in our SDK (See Timber GitHub). If you want to see the logging of the SDK use Timber and add an Timber.Tree to enable logging.

Kotlin
Timber.plant(object : Timber.Tree() {
    override fun log(priority: Int, tag: String?, message: String, t: Throwable?) {
        Log.d("DEBUG", message)
    }
})
Java

Controller Interfaces

SmartSpacesSdk is the main entry point to access all the functions. From there one can access the other interfaces. The SDK must be a singleton in the application. The SDK have the following main interfaces.

User Manager

Manages user authentication. Provides methods for login, logout, change password, get user and get logged status. To acquire the single instance of the user manager call sdk.getUserManager()

Unit Controller

Via the Unit Controller the app can access available and nearby units, filter by type and command them to open.
To acquire the single instance of the Unit Controller call sdk.getUnitController()

The Booking Manager

With the booking manager you are able to create bookings of a room or a locker, delete bookings which are not started yet or end currently ongoing bookings.
To acquire the single instance of the Unit Controller call sdk.getBookingManager()

The Tap Controller

Controller for magneto and NFC “tap” actions. To acquire the single instance of the tap controller call sdk.getTapController()

IotDeviceController

Controller for IotDevice(s). To acquire an instance of the IotDeviceController call sdk.getIotDeviceController().

Refreshing data

There’s also a refresh() method that will re-query backend for latest information regarding user, units, schedules, etc. Existing LiveData<Response> will change to executing (with the old values still available in .data field) and it will get updated once the API calls succeeded.

You should call refresh when your App is going to foreground. By default User, IotUnits and MyBookings are refreshed. See enum values.