Native setup

This guide shows you how to set up your native Android project to use the Play Integrity API from C or C++. Before you can make calls to the API, you must first integrate the Play Core Native SDK by configuring your development environment and updating your build.gradle and CMakeLists.txt files as shown in the following section. For more details see our Native API Reference.

1. Do either of the following:

   • Install Android Studio version 4.0 or higher. Use the SDK Manager UI to install Android SDK Platform version 10.0 (API level 29).
   • Install the Android SDK command-line tools and use sdkmanager to install Android SDK Platform version 10.0 (API level 29).

2. Prepare Android Studio for native development by using the SDK Manager to install the latest CMake and Android Native Development Kit (NDK). For more information on creating or importing native projects, see Getting Started with the NDK.

3. Download the zip file and extract it alongside your project.

   Download Link	Size	SHA-256 Checksum
   play-core-native-sdk-1.15.3.zip	37.8 MiB	9db60185185342f28d2c278b60222333608c67bc022e458a25224eaea8c4c4b7

4. Update your app’s build.gradle file as shown below:

   Groovy

       // App build.gradle
   
       plugins {
         id 'com.android.application'
       }
   
       // Define a path to the extracted Play Core SDK files.
       // If using a relative path, wrap it with file() since CMake requires absolute paths.
       def playcoreDir = file('../path/to/playcore-native-sdk')
   
       android {
           defaultConfig {
               ...
               externalNativeBuild {
                   cmake {
                       // Define the PLAYCORE_LOCATION directive.
                       arguments "-DANDROID_STL=c++_static",
                                 "-DPLAYCORE_LOCATION=$playcoreDir"
                   }
               }
               ndk {
                   // Skip deprecated ABIs. Only required when using NDK 16 or earlier.
                   abiFilters 'armeabi-v7a', 'arm64-v8a', 'x86', 'x86_64'
               }
           }
           buildTypes {
               release {
                   // Include Play Core Library proguard config files to strip unused code while retaining the Java symbols needed for JNI.
                   proguardFile '$playcoreDir/proguard/common.pgcfg'
                   proguardFile '$playcoreDir/proguard/gms_task.pgcfg'
                   proguardFile '$playcoreDir/proguard/per-feature-proguard-files'
                   ...
               }
               debug {
                   ...
               }
           }
           externalNativeBuild {
               cmake {
                   path 'src/main/CMakeLists.txt'
               }
           }
       }
   
       dependencies {
           // Import these feature-specific AARs for each Google Play Core library.
           implementation 'com.google.android.play:app-update:2.1.0'
           implementation 'com.google.android.play:asset-delivery:2.3.0'
           implementation 'com.google.android.play:integrity:1.4.0'
           implementation 'com.google.android.play:review:2.0.2'
   
           // Import these common dependencies.
           implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks:18.0.2'
           implementation files("$playcoreDir/playcore-native-metadata.jar")
           ...
       }
       

   Kotlin

   // App build.gradle
   
   plugins {
       id("com.android.application")
   }
   
   // Define a path to the extracted Play Core SDK files.
   // If using a relative path, wrap it with file() since CMake requires absolute paths.
   val playcoreDir = file("../path/to/playcore-native-sdk")
   
   android {
       defaultConfig {
           ...
           externalNativeBuild {
               cmake {
                   // Define the PLAYCORE_LOCATION directive.
                   arguments += listOf("-DANDROID_STL=c++_static", "-DPLAYCORE_LOCATION=$playcoreDir")
               }
           }
           ndk {
               // Skip deprecated ABIs. Only required when using NDK 16 or earlier.
               abiFilters.clear()
               abiFilters += listOf("armeabi-v7a", "arm64-v8a", "x86", "x86_64")
           }
       }
       buildTypes {
           release {
               // Include Play Core Library proguard config files to strip unused code while retaining the Java symbols needed for JNI.
               proguardFile("$playcoreDir/proguard/common.pgcfg")
               proguardFile("$playcoreDir/proguard/gms_task.pgcfg")
               proguardFile("$playcoreDir/proguard/per-feature-proguard-files")
               ...
           }
           debug {
               ...
           }
       }
       externalNativeBuild {
           cmake {
               path = "src/main/CMakeLists.txt"
           }
       }
   }
   
   dependencies {
       // Import these feature-specific AARs for each Google Play Core library.
       implementation("com.google.android.play:app-update:2.1.0")
       implementation("com.google.android.play:asset-delivery:2.3.0")
       implementation("com.google.android.play:integrity:1.4.0")
       implementation("com.google.android.play:review:2.0.2")
   
       // Import these common dependencies.
       implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-tasks:18.0.2")
       implementation(files("$playcoreDir/playcore-native-metadata.jar"))
       ...
   }

5. Update your app’s CMakeLists.txt files as shown below:

   cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
   
   ...
   
   # Add a static library called “playcore” built with the c++_static STL.
   include(${PLAYCORE_LOCATION}/playcore.cmake)
   add_playcore_static_library()
   
   // In this example “main” is your native code library, i.e. libmain.so.
   add_library(main SHARED
           ...)
   
   target_include_directories(main PRIVATE
           ${PLAYCORE_LOCATION}/include
           ...)
   
   target_link_libraries(main
           android
           playcore
           ...)
   

Data Collection

The Play Core Native SDK may collect version related data to allow Google to improve the product, including:

• App’s package name
• App’s package version
• Play Core Native SDK's version

This data will be collected when you upload your app package to the Play Console. To opt-out of this data collection process, remove the $playcoreDir/playcore-native-metadata.jar import in the build.gradle file.

Note, this data collection related to your use of the Play Core Native SDK and Google’s use of the collected data is separate and independent of Google’s collection of library dependencies declared in Gradle when you upload your app package to the Play Console.