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Amazon SDK setup

Instructions for adding the OneSignal SDK to your Amazon app

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Requirements

  • Your app is distributed on the Amazon AppStore
  • Android 5.0+ device or emulator with "Google Play Store (Services)" installed
  • Configured OneSignal App and Platform

Configure your OneSignal app and platform

If your team already created an account with OneSignal, ask to be invited as an admin role so you can setup the app. Otherwise, sign up for a free account at onesignal.com to get started!

Details on configuring your OneSignal app (click to expand)

You can setup multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Email, SMS) within the same OneSignal App under Settings > Platforms. If you want to create a new app select New App/Website. If this is your first OneSignal app, you will see the next page.



Name your app and organization something recognizable, then select the platform to setup. You can always set up more platforms in this OneSignal App later within Settings > Platforms.

Click Next: Configure Your Platform.


To configure your app, follow the prompts based on the platforms you support.

After you setup your credentials, click Save & Continue.

Choose your Apps Target SDK, the click Save & Continue.


Finally, you will be directed to install the SDK and provided your OneSignal App ID. Make sure to save your App ID as you will need it later.

If you need a teammate or your developer to assist, you can click Invite them to the app and select Done when finished.


Continue through the documentation to finish adding OneSignal to your app.

Setup

Update AndroidManifest.xml

Open your AndroidManifest.xml file and add xmlns:amazon="http://schemas.amazon.com/apk/res/android" in the manifest tag right after the xmlns:android property.

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:amazon="http://schemas.amazon.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.onesignal.example"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

Add the following permissions to AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="com.amazon.device.messaging.permission.RECEIVE" />
<permission android:name="COM.YOUR.PACKAGE_NAME.permission.RECEIVE_ADM_MESSAGE" android:protectionLevel="signature" />
<uses-permission android:name="COM.YOUR.PACKAGE_NAME.permission.RECEIVE_ADM_MESSAGE" />

In the application tag, add the following:

<application ....>
  <amazon:enable-feature android:name="com.amazon.device.messaging"
                         android:required="false"/>
  <service android:name="com.onesignal.notifications.services.ADMMessageHandler"
           android:exported="false" />
  <service android:name="com.onesignal.notifications.services.ADMMessageHandlerJob"
           android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE"
           android:exported="false" />
  <receiver android:name="com.onesignal.notifications.receivers.ADMMessageReceiver"
           android:permission="com.amazon.device.messaging.permission.SEND" 
            android:exported="true" >
    <intent-filter>
      <action android:name="com.amazon.device.messaging.intent.REGISTRATION" />
      <action android:name="com.amazon.device.messaging.intent.RECEIVE" />
      <category android:name="COM.YOUR.PACKAGE_NAME" />
    </intent-filter>
  </receiver>
  
</application>

Replace all 3 of instances COM.YOUR.PACKAGE_NAME with your package name in AndroidManifest.xml.

2. Amazon API key file

Place your api_key.txt in a folder named assets in the root of your project.

To create an api_key.txt for your app, follow our Generate an Amazon API Key guide.

Make sure to use the same keystore when building your APK as you did in step 2.4 in the Amazon Configuration guide.

Ensure that you are not building a debug app when testing Amazon push notifications. It must be a release type.

Submit the signed APK to Live App Testing. Submitting a signed APK is a necessary requirement for ADM to work.

3. Testing

Run your app on a physical device to make sure it builds correctly.

If you used the provided code, then the requestPermission method, should prompt you to subscribe to push notifications. You can always change this later but for now, click "Allow" to subscribe to push notifications.

Check your OneSignal Dashboard Audience > Subscriptions to see your Subscription and click the options button on the left to set yourself as a Test Subscription.

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Troubleshooting

If running into issues, see our Mobile Troubleshooting Guide.

Try our example projects on our Github repository.

If stuck, contact support directly or email [email protected] for help.

For faster assistance, please provide:

  • Your OneSignal App ID
  • Details, logs, and/or screenshots of the issue.
  • Steps to reproduce

Users & subscriptions

Required if using integrations.
Recommended for messaging across multiple channels (push, email, sms).

If you need user consent before tracking their data. OneSignal provides user consent methods to help delay initialization of our SDK until consent is provided. See Handling Personal Data for details.

External ID & aliases

When a user downloads and opens your mobile app or uninstalls and re-installs your app on the same device, a Subscription and a User is created within the OneSignal app.

You can identify that user across multiple subscriptions by setting the External ID property. The External ID should be distinct user ID representing a single user. We recommend using the same user ID as in your Integrations or main analytics tool.

When you authenticate users in your app, call our login method at any time to link this subscription to a user.

val externalId = "123456789" // You will supply the external user id to the OneSignal SDK
OneSignal.login(externalId)

String externalId = "123456789"; // You will supply the external id to the OneSignal SDK
OneSignal.login(externalId);

Our mobile SDKs have methods for detecting User state changes that might be helpful for internal tracking.

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External ID & custom aliases

If your users have multiple user IDs, we do support additional custom Aliases. However, you should still always set the External ID as this is the main alias we use to identify users. See Users for details.


Add email and phone number subscriptions

Recommended if using email and SMS messaging.

Like push subscriptions, email addresses and phone numbers each are a new subscription within OneSignal. Your email and sms subscriptions will be tied to the same user if created using our SDK or if you setting the External ID. You can Import your current user data and use our APIs and/or SDK methods to capture new email addresses and phone numbers when provided to you by your users.

// Pass in email provided by customer
OneSignal.User.addEmail("[email protected]")

// Pass in phone number provided by customer
OneSignal.User.addSms("+11234567890")

// Pass in email provided by customer
OneSignal.getUser().addEmail("[email protected]");

// Pass in phone number provided by customer
OneSignal.getUser().addSms("+11234567890");

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Users & subscriptions

See Users and Subscriptions for more details.

Property & event tags

Tags are custom key : value pairs of String data used for tracking any custom user events and properties. Setting tags is required for more complex Segments and Message Personalization.

For event triggered messages, use tags with Time Operators to note the date and time the event is/occurred and setup automations for sending to those users. See Abandoned Cart Example for details.

OneSignal.User.addTag("key", "value")

OneSignal.getUser().addTag("key", "value");

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Data tags

If you want to store custom data within OneSignal for segmentation, message personalization, and event triggered automation, see Tags for details.

Importing users and subscriptions

If you have a list of user data from a previous source, you can import it into OneSignal following our Import guides.

Message configuration

Common setup items to get the most of your integration.

Deep linking

See our Deep Linking guide to set those up for push and other messaging channels.

Android customizations

For a list of other things you can do, see our Android Customizations.


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Basic SDK setup complete!

For details on the above methods and other methods available, see our Mobile SDK reference.

Updated 16 days ago