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You can use the HubSpot mobile chat SDK to integrate your Android mobile application with HubSpot’s live chat functionality. The mobile chat SDK allows you to:
  • Integrate HubSpot chat into your mobile app to deliver real-time, in-app customer support.
  • Leverage the bot and knowledge base tools to help deflect customer inquires when your support agents are unavailable.
  • Alert users of new messages via push notifications.
  • Customize the chat experience to align with your business’s brand and UI.

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Set up and run the demo app

To set up the mobile chat SDK dependencies to your project:
  • Add your google-services.json in the app/ folder, and ensure that the package_name field in the file is set to com.example.demo.
  • Create your hubspot-info.json file in the app/ folder. The full path of the file should be app/src/main/assets/hubspot-info.json.
  • Add the HubSpot package to your build gradle file:
implementation "com.hubspot.mobilechatsdk:mobile-chat-sdk-android::LATEST_VERSION"
  • Sync your Android project with its gradle files.
  • Build and run the app.

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Install and configure the SDK

The SDK needs to be configured once per app launch. The most convenient time to configure the SDK is during app initialization. Start by getting an instance of the HubSpotManager class, then call the configure method 
val manager = HubspotManager.getInstance(context)
manager.configure()
    try! HubspotManager.configure()

    return true
}
Failure to include the config file, or forgetting to include the file as being part of your apps target will cause initialization to throw an errors. The HubspotConfigError class represents different errors when missing properties.

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Open HubSpot chat view

The chat view can be opened by HubspotWebActivity which extends the Activity class. You can open it by using any of the following approaches:
  • Directly calling startActivity via intent
  • Create any button type, then within an onClick listener of that button, open the HubspotWebActivity.
  • Add HubspotFloatingActionButton in the file which handle the clicks and open the HubspotWebActivity automatically.
For example, if you wanted to go with the second approach above and specify the behavior within an onClick listener of a button: 
binding.anybutton.setOnClickListener {
    startActivity(Intent(requireContext(), HubspotWebActivity::class.java))
}

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Identify users with the HubSpot visitor identification token

You can identify users by using the visitor identification API, detailed in this article. This API is best implemented in your own server project, where you can pass the identity token to your app based on whether suits your specific setup (i.e., passing a token in response to a visitor going through a login page as a result of a dedicated API that you own). Once a token is generated, it can be associated with a contact’s email address by calling HubspotManager.setUserIdentity(email, identityToken). This should be called before opening a chat view.

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Add custom chat data properties

The SDK supports setting key-value pairs to keep track of data you might need to track while a chat session is open. You can set your own custom values, or declare common permission preferences such as photo or notification permissions. Use the HubspotManager.setChatProperties(key, value) method and provide the associated key and value you want to set. This is best called before starting a chat, and will apply to all new chats. You could set an account status, or other identifiers when setting up your user. These will then appear in all chats opened for the remainder of the app launch. For example, the following code would set permissions for camera, photo, notifications, and location data to "false". 
val keyValuePair = mapOf(
    ChatPropertyKey.CameraPermissions.chatPropertyValue to "false",
    ChatPropertyKey.PhotoPermissions.chatPropertyValue to "false",
    ChatPropertyKey.NotificationPermissions.chatPropertyValue to "false",
    ChatPropertyKey.LocationPermissions.chatPropertyValue to "false"
)

hubspotManager.setChatProperties(keyValuePair)

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Clear data on logout

The SDK stores in memory identification tokens, email address, and any properties set. The push token for the app is also associated with the current user, if applicable. You may want to clear this data when a user is logging out, or changing users in a multi user app. To clear this data, call HubspotManager.logout() at an appropriate time in in your app.

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Reference documentation

You can consult the reference documentation for details on how to use each of the components in the HubSpot mobile SDK. The binary file is also hosted here.