Conversations Quickstart App for Android
This is a lightweight Android application for Twilio Conversations.
Configuring and getting started
This demo requires a Twilio account and a working Conversations Service SID. Here is what is needed:
- Your Account's Conversation Service Sid
ISXXXSID which is attached to your Conversation Service. You can find that information in the Twilio Console. You can also create a service there if you don't already have one.
Replacing the Access Token
In order for your quickstart application to work, we need to authenticate an end user by retrieving a short-lived access token attached to your API Key. The strings.xml resource has a placeholder for your access token named test_access_token.
You can generate a token in a few ways:
- Using the twilio-cli and twilio token plugin (Recommended)
- Using Twilio Runtime Function
For the twilio-cli option, run the following command and enter the resulting token into the placeholder:
twilio token:chat --identity <The test username> --chat-service-sid <ISXXX...>
Note: You need to generate an access token with a ChatGrant for a Conversations user to use the Twilio Conversations Client SDK.
After generating a token manually, it will expire after a timeout period, so you will need to replace the token. To use this in production software, you would typically create a token endpoint in your back end application that uses your existing user authentication strategy.