Preparing Your Android App for the Live Experience Widget
Set up your application environment in preparation for adding Live Experience to your Android app.
This is one part in a series of steps required to get Live Experience up and running in
your Android apps.
- Prepare your Android app for the Live Experience widget: Add the Live Experience Framework to Your Android Studio Project, Import the Mobile Component Framework into Your Android Application, and Add the Mobile Component to Your Android Layouts
- Authenticate with Live Experience for Android
- Adding and Configuring the Live Experience Widget for your Android App
Before integrating your Android app with Oracle Live Experience, verify that your
existing Android app and development environment meet the following criteria:
- Android Studio version 3.0.1 or above installed, with Android SDK version 28 or above and Android Build Tools version 28.0.3 or above.
- A valid tenant account for Live Experience.
- Credentials from the Live Experience Admin Console needed to obtain a JSON Web Token (JWT) from Live Experience.
- A copy of the Live Experience Android SDK downloaded to your development machine.
- An existing Android app targeted at Android version 5.1 (Lollipop) or higher.
- Physical and virtual devices targeting the ARM architecture:
- An actual Android hardware device.
- Virtual devices as required for your application. See https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html and https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device.html.Note: You can test the general flow and function of your Live Experience Android application using the Android simulator, however, a physical Android device such as a phone or tablet is required for audio or video functionality.