To share journeys for on-demand trips in your Android consumer apps, use the Consumer SDK. For more information on following a trip using the Consumer SDK, see Follow a trip in Android.
To set up the Consumer SDK for your Android consumer app, follow these steps:
- Check the minimum system requirements
- Get the Consumer SDK
- Configure a Google Cloud Console project
- Get authentication tokens
- Initialize the Consumer SDK
Check the minimum system requirements
See the release notes for the minimum requirements for the version of the Consumer SDK you are using. See Release notes.
To use the Consumer SDK: Your app must target minSdkVersion
23 or higher.
To run an app that uses the Consumer SDK: Android mobile devices must meet the following minimum requirements:
Running Android 6.0 (API level 23) or later.
Have Google Play services installed.
Get the Consumer SDK from the Google Maven repository
Get the Consumer SDK versions 2.1.0 and later from the Google Maven repository. The previously used private repository channel has been deprecated.
Gradle
Add the following to your build.gradle
file:
repositories {
...
google()
}
Maven
Add the following to your pom.xml
file:
<project>
...
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>google-maven-repository</id>
<url>https://maven.google.com</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
...
</project>