Get Familiar with the Flows Component by a Wizard-Generated Application

You will learn

• ✔How to import the Flows component into the application project
• ✔How the Flows APIs are used in wizard-generated applications
• ✔Which screens are provided by the Flows component The Flows component is a new feature of the SAP BTP SDK for Android as of version 3.1 and new features are continually added to the library. The Flows component can reduce and simplify the application code related to the onboarding process, passcode management, and restore and reset scenarios. In addition to providing a default implementation, it also supports options for UI customization and extension points for client code to contribute customized logic. See Onboarding Using the Flow Component of the SAP SDK for Android for an overview. [ACCORDION-BEGIN [Step 1: ](Examine the dependencies to the Flows component)] 1. Open the project you previously created using the SAP BTP SDK Wizard for Android. 2. Press Shift twice and type build.gradle to open the build.gradle file of the app module. 3. Go to the dependencies section and find the dependency declaration to the Flows component. onboarding contains the UI screens and flowsv2 contains the Flows API and logic. !

  

  [VALIDATE_1] [ACCORDION-END] [ACCORDION-BEGIN [Step 2: ](Explore the usage of the Flows API in a wizard-generated application)] [OPTION BEGIN [Java]] 1. Open the project you previously created using the SAP BTP SDK Wizard for Android. 2. In Android Studio, on Windows, press Ctrl+N, or, on a Mac, press command+O, and type WelcomeActivity to open WelcomeActivity.java. 3. On Windows, press Ctrl+F12, or, on a Mac, press command+F12, and type startFlow to move to the startFlow method. To start the onboarding process, firstly create a FlowContext instance that contains the information required by the flow, such as the application information, the status of multi-user mode, the flow state listener, etc. Then call the start method of the Flow class to start the onboarding flow, allowing the entire onboarding process to be handled automatically. !

  

  Notice that by default, the type of a flow is FlowType.ONBOARDING. To start a different type of flow, such as a Change Passcode flow, the client code must specify the flow type in the FlowContext instance. Besides the parameters specified above, there are also many other parameters in the FlowContext class that can be modified to allow the client code to customize a flow. When the values of the parameters are not specified in the client code, the default values will be used. The details of all parameters in the FlowContext class will be explained in subsequent tutorials. 4. FlowStateListener is a parameter in the FlowContext class. Using the callbacks defined in the listener, client code can insert logic at certain points during the flow process. For example, after the client policy is retrieved, the client code can retrieve the information that will be used by the app. In Android Studio, on Windows, press Ctrl+N, or, on a Mac, press command+O, and type WizardFlowStateListener to open WizardFlowStateListener.java. This class is a sample implementation for the callbacks defined in the FlowStateListener class. The details of FlowState and FlowStateListener will be explained in subsequent tutorials. [OPTION END] [OPTION BEGIN [Kotlin]] 1. Open the project you previously created using the SAP BTP SDK Wizard for Android. 2. In Android Studio, on Windows, press Ctrl+N, or, on a Mac, press command+O, and type WelcomeActivity to open WelcomeActivity.kt. 3. On Windows, press Ctrl+F12, or, on a Mac, press command+F12, and type startFlow to move to the startOnboarding method. To start the onboarding process, firstly create a FlowContext instance that contains the information required by the flow, such as the application information, the status of multi-user mode, the flow state listener, etc. Then call the start method of the Flow class to start the onboarding flow, allowing the entire onboarding process to be handled automatically. !

  

  Notice that by default, the type of a flow is FlowType.ONBOARDING. To start a different type of flow, such as a Change Passcode flow, the client code must specify the flow type in the FlowContext instance. Besides the parameters specified above, there are also many other parameters in the FlowContext class that can be modified to allow the client code to customize a flow. When the values of the parameters are not specified in the client code, the default values will be used. The details of all parameters in the FlowContext class will be explained in subsequent tutorials. 4. FlowStateListener is a parameter in the FlowContext class. Using the callbacks defined in the listener, client code can insert logic at certain points during the flow process. For example, after the client policy is retrieved, the client code can retrieve the information that will be used by the app. In Android Studio, on Windows, press Ctrl+N, or, on a Mac, press command+O, and type WizardFlowStateListener to open WizardFlowStateListener.kt. This class is a sample implementation for the callbacks defined in the FlowStateListener class. The details of FlowState and FlowStateListener will be explained in subsequent tutorials. [OPTION END] [DONE] [ACCORDION-END] [ACCORDION-BEGIN [Step 3: ](Display the UI screens of the Flows component in a wizard-generated application)] 1. The Flows component provides the required UI screens for the onboarding process and passcode management, including the end user license agreement (EULA) screen for the user to understand and agree to the terms of using the app, the QR scan screen to get the application configuration, the sign-in screen for user authentication, and passcode screens for the user to create and confirm their passcode. 2. There are different combinations of the screens depending on the different application configuration and user options in the FlowContext instance. The following sequence of screens demonstrate the onboarding process of the project previously generated by the wizard. The details for how to customize the screens and include or exclude a screen in a flow will be explained in subsequent tutorials.

  

  Congratulations! You now understand the basic concepts of the Flows component and have examined its usage in the project created using the SAP BTP SDK Wizard for Android! [VALIDATE_2] [ACCORDION-END]