How to detect the SDK on your Android app

In some cases, you might not be sure that the IBM Mobile App Messaging SDK is installed on an app. Watson Campaign Automation provides a way to detect the SDK on your Android app and to retrieve the SDK’s registration details, such as user ID and channel ID.

Overview

Skill Level: Any

Prerequisites

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Step-by-step

If the SDK is built on your Android app, use the following code to generate information about the SDK.

// Detecting if IMC SDK is installed 
try {
    Class.forName("com.ibm.mce.sdk.api.MceSdk");
    System.out.println("IMC SDK installed");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
  System.out.println("IMC SDK not installed");
}

After you know that the SDK is on your Android app, you can query for its version.

String versionNum = MceSdk.getSdkVerNumber(); 
System.out.println("IMC SDK Version: " + versionNum);

Expected outcome

Next, you can check the registration details. For information about obtaining registration details, see How to access registration details (Android).

Need more help? Check out all of our available tutorials for mobile app messaging here.