Office 365 SDK for Android Preview

Table of Contents

Overview
Details
Samples
Quick Start for SharePoint lists and files
Quick Start for Exchange mail, calendar and contact apps
Building Mail-Calendar-Contact SDK from Sources
Running Mail-Calendar-Contact e2e Tests
Features
Tests
Contributing
License

Overview

With the Office 365 SDK for Android Preview, it’s now possible to use data stored in Microsoft Office 365 from your Android Apps. This means, you can access SharePoint lists, folders or Exchange calendar, contacts and emails from within your Android-based applications.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) has built the Office 365 SDK for Android Preview, an open source project that strives to help Android developers access Office 365 data from their apps.

This SDK provides access to: Microsoft SharePoint Lists, Microsoft SharePoint Files, Microsoft Exchange Calendar, Microsoft Exchange Contacts, Microsoft Exchange Mail.

Details

The SDK is composed of three independent packages, so that you can import only the SDK that you need in your project.

office365-files-sdk [depends on office365-base-sdk]
office365-lists-sdk [depends on office365-base-sdk]
office365-mail-calendar-contact-sdk (see wiki)

The SDK is compatible with the following Android versions: 4.0.3 (API15),4.1.2 (API16),4.2.2 (API 17), 4.3 (API18)

Exchange SDK is available as Maven dependency via Maven Central Repository.

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.microsoft.office</groupId>
   <artifactId>mail-calendar-contact</artifactId>
</dependency>

To help you get started quickly, we have created sample applications, including:

• read-write-sp-list-sample app that allows the user to view the items in a particular list of a SharePoint site, add a new item with a picture into this list, update and delete an item from this list.

• exchange-sample app that lets the user view all his mails from the drafts folder and send mail, events from all his calendars and all his contacts.

Additionally we are working on an SDK that covers the discovery API. Until then please look at the discovery-files-sample that we have written that uses the discovery API to get the list of files from my-lists on SharePoint.

Samples##

There are currently 4 samples, each one excercise a different Office 365 API. All the samples are available as .zip file with all the required dependencies included. Please download it from here.

What's included:

discovery-files-sample (Files and Discovery API)
exchange-sample (Exchange API)
read-sp-list-sample (Sharepoint Lists API)
read-write-sp-list-sample (Sharepoint Lists API)

Samples require an existing Office 365 account or subscribe for one here

All sample applications require a Client ID and Redirect URL in order to get the OAuth authentication token from Azure Active Directory. Please follow the following steps to get mentioned values.

Create an Application inside Active Directory using Azure Management Portal
Inside Active Directory, go to Applications and Add a new one
Select "Add an application my organization is developing"
Select "Native Client Application"
Enter a redirect URL e.g.: https://myorganization/oauth
For Office 365 API Access, you can select Exchange Online or SharePoint Online (or both).

Once you have set the permissions for your application, using the ClientID, Redirect URL you can ask for an AAD token using your credentials. These are the values you must use in the sample applications.

Please refer to this for further information.

##Quick Start for SharePoint lists and files ##

discovery-files-sample

A breakdown of the code is below:

Step 1: The app gets authorized by the user by calling the Authorization URL and passing its hardcoded scope.

Step 2: The app gets a token for Discovery by calling the Token URL and passing the code from here

officeClient = mApplication.getOfficeClient(DiscoveryFragment.this.getActivity(), Constants.DISCOVERY_RESOURCE_ID).get();

Step 3: The app discovers the services that implement its desired scope by calling the Discovery URL passing the token from step #2.

List services = officeClient.getDiscoveryInfo("https://api.officeppe.com/discovery/me/services").get();

Step 4: For each consented capability, Discovery will return a service URL and a service resource ID.

DiscoveryInformation fileService = null; for (DiscoveryInformation service : services) { if (service.getCapability().equals(Constants.MYFILES_CAPABILITY)) { fileService = service; break; } }

Then for the desired service, the app does

Step 5: Get a token for the service by calling the Token URL and passing the service resource ID from step #4.

Step 6: Now the app is set to call the service using the service URL and the token from step #5.

String sharepointResourceId = fileService.getServiceResourceId(); String endpointUrl = fileService.getServiceEndpointUri(); String sharepointUrl = endpointUrl.split("_api")[0]; FileClient fileClient = mApplication.getFileClient(DiscoveryFragment.this.getActivity(), sharepointResourceId, sharepointUrl).get();

read-write-sp-list-sample

The application expects a picture library on the site with Title and Description columns visible in the default view of the library. Run the application. Click on the cog wheel at the top of the app on the first screen and you will see the second screen that has the list of settings that need to be configured. Examples are below.

SharePoint URL would be like “https://foobar.sharepoint.com"
Site URL would be like “sites/developers”
Library name would be something like “foobarPictureLibrary”
Please choose the AAD method under authentication method for Sharepoint Online.

The configuration for the app is done. You can go back to the first screen and click on the box next to the settings to retrieve the items in the picture library, add an item or update the title or description of an existing item.

All the code that calls into the lists SDK is in the https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-365-SDK-for-Android/blob/master/samples/read-write-sp-list-sample/src/com/microsoft/readwritelistsample/datasource/ListItemsDataSource.java class

View the list items – Refer to the getDefaultListViewItems method
Add a list item – Refer to saveNewCar method
Update a list item – Refer to updateCarData method
Delete a list item – Refer to deleteCar method

Note: The app has been tested on Android versions API 14 and 17 .

read-sp-list-sample

Click on the cog wheel or menu at the top of the app on the first screen and you will see the second screen that has the list of settings that need to be configured. Once you have set the Client ID and Redirect URL, after passing the authentication steps, the application should have the authentication token. If the token is available, simply enter any existing Sharepoint List Name and click "Get List Items" to retrieve the list contents.

Quick Start for Exchange mail, calendar and contact apps

mail-calendar-contact

Retrieves emails from the users drafts folder, retrieves events from the user's calendar and retrieves contacts from the user's contact list.

The application requires and Exchange Online account, subscribe to a mail account from here or use an existing Exchange Online mail account.

Click on menu at the top-left of the app and select Preferences. You will see the second screen that has the list of settings that need to be configured.

Building Mail-Calendar-Contact SDK from Sources

Mail-Calendar-Contact SDK is using code generation to create object model for Office365 service based on metadata. It connects to the endpoint that should be provided in pom.xml.

Accessing metadata requires authentication so login and password should also be provided to build the SDK.

    <serviceRootURL>https://outlook.office365.com/ews/odata</serviceRootURL>
    <serviceUsername>Enter your username here</serviceUsername>
    <servicePassword>Enter your password here</servicePassword>

All this configuration is made in the parent pom (see "/parent" folder). If service endpoint and authentication credentials are provided execute mvn clean install in the root folder of the SDK to build it.

Running Mail-Calendar-Contact e2e Tests

Mail-Calendar-Contact e2e tests:

Connect to the endpoint that should be provided in pom.xml.
Require authentication so credentials should be provided.
Require authentication type to be specified. Available option are basic and aad. basic is used by default.

	<serviceRootURL>https://outlook.office365.com/ews/odata</serviceRootURL>
	<serviceUsername>Enter your login here</serviceUsername>
	<servicePassword>Enter your password here</servicePassword>
	<serviceResourceId>Enter your resource ID here</serviceResourceId>
	<serviceClientId>Enter your client ID here</serviceClientId>
	<serviceAuthorityUrl>https://login.windows.net/common/oauth2/token</serviceAuthorityUrl>
	<serviceRedirectUrl>Enter your redirect URL here</serviceRedirectUrl>
	<serviceAuth>basic</serviceAuth>

Configuration should be made in the testing project pom. If service endpoint and authentication credentials are provided follow instruction on running tests in Exchange Wiki.

Features

For the entire list of methods available in the SDK, please refer to the java docs under each SDK in the SDK folder.

Tests

Apart from the sample apps, we also have end to end tests that demonstrate the use of the SDK. Please look at the tests folder under the root of the SDK.

##Contributing##

You will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement before submitting your pull request. To complete the Contributor License Agreement (CLA), you will need to submit a request via the form and then electronically sign the Contributor License Agreement when you receive the email containing the link to the document. This needs to only be done once for any Microsoft Open Technologies OSS project.

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