Flutterwave Android SDK

Flutterwave’s Android SDK can be used to integrate the Flutterwave payment gateway into your android app. It comes with a ready-made Drop In UI and non-UI module, depending on your preference.

The payment methods currently supported are Cards, USSD, Mpesa, GH Mobile Money, UG Mobile Money, ZM Mobile Money, Rwanda Mobile Money, Franc Mobile Money, US ACH, UK Bank, SA Bank, Nigeria Bank Account, Nigeria Bank Transfer, Barter Mobile Wallet.

Before you begin

• Ensure you have your test (and live) API keys.
• The use of this SDK means you have signed up on Flutterwave and have accepted Flutterwave’s terms and conditions and privacy policy.

Requirements

• The minimum supported SDK version is 15
• Rave android sdk 1.0.50 and above only supports projects that have been migrated to androidx. For more information, read Google’s migration guide.

Adding it to your project

Step 1. Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

    allprojects {
		repositories {
			//...
			maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
		}
	}

Step 2. Add the dependency

If you want to use the default Drop In UI, add the rave-android module dependency

    dependencies {
	     implementation 'com.github.flutterwave.rave-android:rave_android:2.1.39'
	}

if you are not interested in our default UI and you want to use yours and only want to interact with our core sdk, use the rave_presentation module

    dependencies {
	     implementation 'com.github.Flutterwave.rave-android:rave_presentation:2.1.39'
	}

Step 3. Add the INTERNET permission to your android manifest

The steps below show how to use the Flutterwave Android SDK as a Drop-in UI (all the views for the payment process are handled by the SDK). If you would like to use your own custom UI instead, please see the continuation here.

Usage

For using the default UI

1. Create a RaveUiManager instance

Set the public key, encryption key and other required parameters. The RaveUiManager accepts a mandatory instance of the calling Activity (or a Fragment that has a parent activity).

        new RaveUiManager(activity).setAmount(amount)
                        .setCurrency(currency)
                        .setEmail(email)
                        .setfName(fName)
                        .setlName(lName)
                        .setNarration(narration)
                        .setPublicKey(publicKey)
                        .setEncryptionKey(encryptionKey)
                        .setTxRef(txRef)
                        .setPhoneNumber(phoneNumber, boolean)
                        .acceptAccountPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptCardPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptMpesaPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptAchPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptGHMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptUgMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptZmMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptRwfMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptSaBankPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptUkPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptBankTransferPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptUssdPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptBarterPayments(boolean)
                        .acceptFrancMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)
                        .allowSaveCardFeature(boolean)
                        .onStagingEnv(boolean)
                        .setMeta(`List<Meta>`)
                        .withTheme(styleId)
                        .isPreAuth(boolean)
                        .setSubAccounts(List<SubAccount>)
                        .shouldDisplayFee(boolean)
                        .showStagingLabel(boolean)
                        .initialize();

Function Definitions

Function	Parameter	Type	Required
setAmount(amount)	This is the amount to be charged from card/account	double	Required
setCurrency(currency)	This is the specified currency to charge the card in	String	Required
setfName(fName)	This is the first name of the card holder or the customer	String	Required
setlName(lName)	This is the last name of the card holder or the customer	String	Required
setEmail(email)	This is the email address of the customer	String	Required
setNarration(narration)	This is a custom description added by the merchant. For Bank Transfer payments, this becomes the account name of the account to be paid into. See more details here.	String	Not Required
setPublicKey(publicKey)	Merchant’s public key. Get your merchant keys here for staging and live	String	Required
setEncryptionKey(encryptionKey)	Merchant’s encryption key. Get your merchant keys here for staging and live	String	Required
setTxRef(txRef)	This is the unique reference, unique to the particular transaction being carried out. It is generated by the merchant for every transaction	String	Required
setPhoneNumber(phoneNumber)	This sets the customer’s phone number. This functions is also overloaded to allow you specify whether the customer can edit their phone number as such: setPhoneNumber(phoneNumber,false). When set to false, the user will not be able to change the number you set here.	String Optional overloads: String, boolean	Not Required
acceptAccountPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept payments via bank accounts, else set to false.	boolean	Not Required
acceptCardPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept payments via cards, else set to false	boolean	Not Required
acceptMpesaPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Mpesa payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to KE and your currency to KES	boolean	Not Required
acceptGHMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Ghana mobile money payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to GH and your currency to GHS	boolean	Not Required
acceptUgMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Uganda mobile money payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to UG and your currency to UGX	boolean	Not Required
acceptZmMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Zambia mobile money payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to NG and your currency to ZMW. MTN is the only available network at the moment, see more details in the API documentation.	boolean	Not Required
acceptRwfMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Rwanda mobile money payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to NG and your currency to RWF. See more details in the API documentation.	boolean	Not Required
acceptSaBankPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept South African direct bank account payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to ZA and your currency to ZAR.	boolean	Not Required
acceptUkPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept UK Bank Account payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to NG, set currency to GBP, set accountbank String, set accountname String, set accountnumber String, set is_uk_bank_charge2 true, set payment_type account. Please use your live credentials for this	boolean	Not Required
acceptAchPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept US ACH charges from your customers, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to US and your currency to USD. You also have to set acceptAccountPayments(true)	boolean	Not Required
acceptBankTransferPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept payments via bank transfer from your customers, else set to false. This option is currently only available for Nigerian Naira. Note: By default, the account numbers generated are dynamic. This method has been overloaded for more options as shown below: - To generate static (permanent) accounts instead, pass in true as a second parameter. E.g. acceptBankTransferPayments(true, true) - To generate accounts that expire at a certain date, or after a certain number of payments, pass in integer values for duration and frequency as such: acceptBankTransferPayments(true, duration, frequency). You can get more details in the API documentation.	boolean Optional overloads: boolean, boolean boolean, int, int	Not Required
acceptUssdPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept payments via USSD transfer from your customers, else set to false . This option is currently only available for the Nigerian Naira.	boolean	Not Required
acceptBarterPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept payments via Barter from your customers, else set to false.	boolean	Not Required
acceptFrancMobileMoneyPayments(boolean)	Set to true if you want to accept Francophone mobile money payments, else set to false . For this option to work, you should set your country to NG and your currency to XOF for West African CFA franc like Ivory Coast OR XAF for Central African CFA franc like Cameroon . See more details in the API documentation.	boolean	Not Required
allowSaveCardFeature(boolean)	Set to true if you want to give the user the option to save their cards for future transactions. This option helps them avoid retyping their card details for every transaction. Defaults to true.	boolean	Not Required
onStagingEnv(boolean)	Set to true if you want your transactions to run in the staging environment otherwise set to false. Defaults to false	boolean	Not Required
setMeta(List<Meta>)	Pass in any other custom data you wish to pass. It takes in a List of Meta objects	List<Meta>	Not Required
setSubAccounts(List<SubAccount>)	Pass in a List of SubAccount,if you want to split transaction fee with other people. Subaccounts are your vendors’ accounts that you want to settle per transaction. To initialize a SubAccount class, do SubAccount(String subAccountId,String transactionSplitRatio) or SubAccount(String subAccountId,String transactionSplitRatio,String transactionChargeType, String transactionCharge) to also charge the subaccount a fee. Learn more about split payments and subaccounts.	List<SubAccount>	Not Required
setIsPreAuth(boolean)	Set to true to preauthorise the transaction amount. Learn more about preauthourization.	int	Not Required
withTheme(styleId)	Sets the theme of the UI.	int	Not Required
setPaymentPlan(payment_plan)	If you want to do recurrent payment, this is the payment plan ID to use for the recurring payment, you can see how to create payment plans here and here. This is only available for card payments	String	Not Required
shouldDisplayFee(boolean)	Set to false to not display a dialog for confirming total amount(including charge fee) that Rave will charge. By default this is set to true	boolean	Not Required
showStagingLabel(boolean)	Set to false to not display a staging label when in staging environment. By default this is set to true	boolean	Not Required
initialize()	Launch the Rave Payment UI for when using the UI module,	N/A	Required

Note: The order in which you call the methods for accepting different payment types is the order in which they will show in the UI.

To see a more practical way of using the sdk, head to our sample app in the repository here

2. Handle the response

In the calling activity, override the onActivityResult method to receive the payment response as shown below

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        /*
         *  We advise you to do a further verification of transaction's details on your server to be
         *  sure everything checks out before providing service or goods.
        */
        if (requestCode == RaveConstants.RAVE_REQUEST_CODE && data != null) {
            String message = data.getStringExtra("response");
            if (resultCode == RavePayActivity.RESULT_SUCCESS) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "SUCCESS " + message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            else if (resultCode == RavePayActivity.RESULT_ERROR) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "ERROR " + message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            else if (resultCode == RavePayActivity.RESULT_CANCELLED) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "CANCELLED " + message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }
        else {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        }
    }

The intent’s message object contains the raw JSON response from the Rave API. This can be parsed to retrieve any additional payment information needed. Typical success response can be found here and failed response here.

PLEASE NOTE We advise you to do a further verification of transaction’s details on your server to be sure everything checks out before providing service or goods.

3. Customize the look

You can apply a new look by changing the color of certain parts of the UI to highlight your brand colors.

First specify the theme in your styles.xml file. In this theme, you can edit the style for each of the elements you’d like to style, like the pay button, OTP button, etc.

    <style name="MyCustomTheme" parent="RaveAppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
        <item name="OTPButtonStyle">@style/myOtpBtnStyle</item>
        <item name="PayButtonStyle">@style/myBtnStyle</item>
	<item name="PinButtonStyle">@style/myPinButtonStyle</item>
        <item name="OTPHeaderStyle">@style/myOtpHeaderStyle</item>
        <item name="TabLayoutStyle">@style/myTabLayoutStyle</item>
        <item name="PinHeaderStyle">@style/myPinHeaderStyle</item>
        <item name="PaymentTileStyle">@style/myPaymentTileStyle</item>
        <item name="PaymentTileTextStyle">@style/myPaymentTileTextStyle</item>
        <item name="PaymentTileDividerStyle">@style/myPaymentTileDividerStyle</item>
    </style>

Then in your RavePayManager setup, add .withTheme(<Reference to your style>) anywhere before calling the initialize() function. e.g.

 new RavePayManager(activity).setAmount(amount)
                   //...
                   //...
                   .withTheme(R.Style.MyCustomTheme)
                   .initialize();

There is a limit to which the drop-in UI can be customized. For further customization, see our Custom UI implemetation guide here.

Configuring Proguard

To configure Proguard, add the following lines to your proguard configuration file. These will keep files related to this sdk

keepclasseswithmembers public class com.flutterwave.raveandroid.** { *; }
dontwarn com.flutterwave.raveandroid.card.CardFragment

Help

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