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Cashfree’s Android SDK provides a comprehensive payment solution that integrates the payment gateway into your Android applications, supporting Android SDK version 19 and above. The SDK offers multiple checkout flows including web checkout and UPI Intent checkout.

Key benefits

The Android SDK offers the following advantages for your payment integration:
  • Multiple checkout flows: Provides web checkout and UPI Intent checkout options to suit different integration needs.
  • Native Android support: Optimised for Android SDK version 19 and above with native UI components for UPI payments.
  • Customisable UI: Allows customisation of themes, colours, and fonts to match your app’s design.
  • Secure and compliant: Securely handles payment processing with built-in security measures managed by the SDK.

Prerequisites

Ensure you complete the following tasks before starting the integration: The Android integration consists of three essential steps:

Step 1

Create an order

Step 2

Open the checkout page

Step 3

Confirm the payment
The step-by-step guide for each step of the integration process is as follows:

Step 1: Create an order Server-side

To integrate the Cashfree Payment Gateway, you must first create an order. Complete this step before you process any payments. Configure an endpoint on your server to handle order creation. You can’t call this API from the client-side.
Create orders through your server as this API requires your secret key. Don’t call it directly from your mobile application.
API request for creating an order
Here’s a sample request for creating an order using your desired backend language. Cashfree offers backend SDKs to simplify the integration process.
After successfully creating an order, you will receive a unique order_id and payment_session_id that you need for subsequent steps. You can view the complete API request and response for /orders in the Create Order API.

Step 2: Open the checkout page Client-side

Once the order is created, the next step is to open the payment page so the customer can make the payment.

1. Set up the SDK

The Cashfree Android SDK is hosted on Maven Central. You can download the latest version 2.4.0. The Android SDK supports Android SDK version 19 and above. Add the following dependency to your app’s build.gradle file:

2. Select a payment flow

The Android SDK offers the following payment flows:
In this flow, the SDK provides a webview-based checkout implementation to facilitate a quick integration with the payment gateway. Your customers can fill in the necessary details in the web page and complete the payment. This mode handles all the business logic and UI components to make the payment smooth and easy to use.
This flow is for merchants who want to provide UPI Intent functionality using Cashfree’s mobile SDK. In this flow, the SDK provides a pre-built native Android screen to facilitate integration with the payment gateway. Your customers see a list of UPI apps installed on their phone which they can select to initiate payment. This mode handles all the business logic and UI components to make the payment smooth and easy to use. The SDK allows you to customise the UI in terms of colour coding and fonts.

3. Complete the payment

To complete the payment, follow these steps:
  1. Create a CFSession object.
  2. Create a CFTheme object.
  3. Create a CFWebCheckoutPayment or CFUPIIntentCheckoutPayment object.
  4. Set up payment callback.
  5. Initiate the payment using the payment object.

Create a session

This object contains essential information about the order, including the payment session ID (payment_session_id) and order ID (order_id) obtained from Step 1. It also specifies the environment (sandbox or production).

Customise theme (optional)

You can customise the appearance of the checkout screen using CFTheme. This step is optional but can help maintain consistency with your app’s design.

Create checkout payment object

This object combines all the configurations (session, theme) into a single checkout configuration. Finally, call doPayment() to open the Cashfree web checkout screen. This will present the user with the payment options and handle the payment process.
Use CFUPIIntentCheckoutPayment to create the payment object for UPI Intent flow. This object accepts a CFSession and theme configuration.

Set up payment callback

The SDK exposes an interface CFCheckoutResponseCallback to receive callbacks from the SDK once the payment journey ends. This interface consists of 2 methods:
Make sure to set the callback at activity’s onCreate as this also handles the activity restart cases.

Initiate the payment

Finally, call doPayment() to open the Cashfree checkout screen. This will present the user with the payment options and handle the payment process.

Sample code

Sample GitHub code

Step 3: Confirm the payment Server-side

After the customer completes the payment, you must confirm the payment status. Once the payment finishes, the user redirects back to your activity. To verify an order you can call our /pg/orders endpoint from your backend. You can also use our SDK to achieve the same.
Always verify the order status before you deliver services to the customer. You can use the Get Order API for this. An order is successful when the order_status is PAID.

Testing

After you integrate the checkout functionality, verify that it opens the Cashfree-hosted payment page. Follow these steps to test:
  1. Click the checkout button.
  2. Verify you’re redirected to the Cashfree Checkout payment page.

Error codes

To confirm the error returned in your Android application, you can view the error codes that are exposed by the SDK.

Other options

If you require to initialise the SDK yourself then follow the steps below. Make sure to initialise the SDK in Application class to avoid any Runtime issues.
1

Add the following to your values.xml file

<bool name="cashfree_pg_core_auto_initialize_enabled">false</bool>
2

Initialise the SDK yourself before attempting payment

To enable SDK logging add the following to your values.xml file.<integer name="cashfree_pg_logging_level">3</integer>Following are the Logging levels.
  • VERBOSE = 2
  • DEBUG = 3
  • INFO = 4
  • WARN = 5
  • ERROR = 6
  • ASSERT = 7
If you want to disable quick checkout flow in the payment journey you can add the following to your values.xml file.<bool name="cf_quick_checkout_enabled">false</bool>
Add the following to your values.xml file.<bool name="cashfree_pg_core_encrypt_pref_enabled">false</bool>

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