IDWise Smart Onboarding Android SDK for React-Native

In an increasingly digital world, relying solely on conventional and manual remote validation methods involving database checks, IP addresses and credit bureau checks is cumbersome, inefficient and opens your customers’ sensitive data to a variety of data breach security risks. IDWise’s cutting-edge document verification, face match and liveness detection solution establishes a robust layer of trust between your business and your prospective customer so that you can focus your effort on developing your business faster and with more confidence while stopping even the most sophisticated fraudsters in their tracks.

This git repository contains the official IDWiseSDK meant to be used in React-Native applications. This README contains all the needed information to test and integrate the IDWiseSDK in your React-Native project.

Requirements

The minSdkVersion is 16 and targetSdkVersion is set to 31 in IDWise Android SDK. It is recommended to install the Latest Android Studio on your development machine.

Installation

Add the following in your app level build.gradle file located at projectRoot/android/app/build.gradle

  android {
    ...
    defaultConfig {
      ...
      multiDexEnabled true
    }
    buildFeatures {
      ...
      dataBinding true
    }
  }

Add following repositories in you project-level build.gradle file located at projectRoot/android/build.gradle

repositories {
	maven { 
		url 'http://mobile-sdk.idwise.ai/releases/' 
            	allowInsecureProtocol = true
	}
	maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

Finally, Add the following dependency in your app level build.gradle file located at projectRoot/android/app/build.gradle. Replace the x.y.z with the latest IDWise SDK version

dependencies {
	...
	implementation 'com.idwise:android-sdk:x.y.z'
}

Linking

In order to Link the React Code with android, we need to create a Module, let’s call it IDWiseModule. You can find the sample IDWiseModule.java for sample code.

In order to use IDWiseModule we need to create a React Package, let’s call it IDWisePackage. You can find the sample IDWisePackage.java for sample code.

Now we can add our newly created IDWisePackage to our packages, to do this, we need to edit the MainApplication.java, located at projectRoot/android/your/package/name/../MainApplication.java. In getPackages() method, we need to add our Package like below. You can find the sample MainApplication.java for sample code.

	@Override
        protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
          List<ReactPackage> packages = new PackageList(this).getPackages();
	  
	  //add IDWisePackage here
           packages.add(new IDWisePackage());
	   
          return packages;
        }

React-Native Usage

Invoking IDWise SDK is very simple. First reterieve IDWiseModule from NativeModules in your .js file from where you want to invoke IDWise SDK:

const { IDWiseModule } = NativeModules;

Initializing the SDK

In order to use the SDK, we need to initialize it first with the <CLIENT_KEY> provided by IDWise. You can pre-load this on componentDidMount() if you want to. Here is how we can initialize the SDK.

IDWiseModule.initializeSDK("<CLIENT_KEY>");

Starting the Journey

Now we can start the verfication journey by calling startJourney(..) of the SDK like below. This will start the verification process and that’s it.

IDWiseModule.startJourney("<JOURNEY_DEFINITION_ID>","<REFERENCE_NO>","en");

Events (Callbacks)

Throughout the journey, IDWise SDK sends back some events to the Hosting app. Here we can listen to those events:

useEffect(() => {

    const eventEmitter = new NativeEventEmitter(NativeModules.IDWiseModule);

    eventEmitter.addListener('onError', (event) => {
      console.log(`An Error has occured  ${event.errorCode} : ${event.errorMessage}`); 
    });

    eventEmitter.addListener('journeyStarted', (event) => {
        console.log(`Journey Started with id ${event.journeyId}`); 
    });

    eventEmitter.addListener('journeyCompleted', (event) => {
      console.log(`Journey Completed with id ${event.journeyId}`);
    });

    eventEmitter.addListener('journeyCancelled', (event) => {
      console.log(`Journey Cancelled with id ${event.journeyId}`); 
    });


  })

Sample Project

You can find the Sample Project for sample code for React-Native Integration.