Android SDK Overview

forter's android sdk allows forter to receive important behavioral and cyber events that contribute greatly to our model's accuracy and ability to identify fraud and suspicious activity throughout the customer journey and during the checkout event what you’ll find in the overview section the overview section tells you everything you need to know about how to integrate with forter's android sdk and provides some insights into how things work “under the hood” you can find information about everything from an explanation of how forter manages to be both automated and accurate, to the technical integration steps, to reassurance about availability and security, and more if you ever find that something is not clear, you can always visit the help center at any time terminology fortersdk the sdk provided by forter which enables easy event submission from your android application to forter's servers event an occurrence / an interaction from the user that is considered a change in the application's current state an event could be any interaction from the user / a change in the environment performance and testing the forter sdk is designed to have minimal impact on the merchant's application all events are sent to forter a synchronously via a queue outside the main thread, so they do not affect customer experience we ensure the memory and network usage are optimized by enforcing queue size and communication policies, both of which are configurable to ensure stability, the forter sdk is thoroughly tested using industry best practices for automatic testing including unit testing performance profiling (memory, cpu, battery and network) stress testing e2e (end to end) tests on a wide variety of devices (using appium, amazon device farm, and google firebase) the sdk is deployed on live applications on google play store integration steps installation install the fortersdk through android studio docid\ xk75hdpuxyd2ns9kje4wm and add required permissions to your android manifest docid\ ign0ntgtzddgs20mhkrrh we also recommend adding the install referrer docid\ mygfheugvf6kuyvesxc98 to your manifest start the sdk initialize the fortersdk as described in the integration guide docid\ qdpx rfkqd mpwgajjzdg include fortermobileuid docid\ m4cizftpuygezwbulyyw4 in all forter requests send the latest token generated by the forter sdks to your backend when an order is placed via your native mobile application this will allow forter to connect behavioral and cyber data collected on the mobile applications to the order data sent from your backend send location updates docid 2njlnqxr5i2bbpqf9 v92 if your app has gained the user's location permission, forter strongly recommends that you provide us with this data on every location update android webview docid\ k8t6ov3negwlkwlc zzwa integration for apps that incorporate hybrid or mobile browsers, forter offers a webview integration solution make sure to also include the forter javascript for webview/browser based components of your app