Android Integration
Learn more about the android sdk integration in your app
Cashfree’s Integrity Standards
Before proceeding with the SDK integration, please ensure that your application complies with Cashfree’s Integrity. Applications that don’t meet the required integrity standards may be restricted from using production services.
For further guidance, refer to the Cashfree Integrity.
Setting Up SDK
Step 1: Creating an Order
The first step in the Cashfree Payment Gateway integration is to create an Order. You need to do this before any payment can be processed. You can add an endpoint to your server which creates this order and is used for communication with your frontend.
API Request for Creating an Order
Here’s a sample request for creating an order using your desired backend language. Cashfree offers backend SDKs to simplify the integration process.
You can find the SDKs here.
After successfully creating an order, you will receive a unique order_id
and payment_session_id
that you need for subsequent steps.
You can view all the complete api request and response for /orders
here.
Step 2: Opening the Payment Page
Once the order is created, the next step is to open the payment page so the customer can make the payment. Cashfree Android SDK offer below payment flow.
Web Checkout
Web Checkout
In this flow, SDK provides a webview based checkout implementation to facilitate a quick integration with our payment gateway. Your customers can fill in the necessary details in the web page and complete the payment. This mode also handles all the business logic and UI Components to make the payment smooth and easy to use.
UPI Intent Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
This flow is for merchants who wants to quickly provide UPI Intent functionality using cashfree’s mobile SDK. In this flow, SDK provides a pre-built native Android screen to facilitate a quick integration with our payment gateway. Your customers will see a list of UPI apps installed in their phone which they can select to initiate payment. This mode handles all the business logic and UI Components to make the payment smooth and easy to use. The SDK allows the merchant to customize the UI in terms of color coding, fonts.
To complete the payment, we can follow the following steps:
- Create a
CFSession
object. - Create a
CFTheme
object. - Create a
CFWebCheckoutPayment/CFUPIIntentCheckoutPayment
object. - Set payment callback.
- Initiate the payment using the payment object created from [step 3]
We go through these step by step below.
Create a Session
This object contains essential information about the order, including the payment session ID (payment_session_id
) and order ID (order_id
) obtained from Step 1. It also specifies the environment (sandbox or production).
Customize Theme (Optional)
You can customize the appearance of the checkout screen using CFTheme. This step is optional but can help maintain consistency with your app’s design.
Web Checkout
Web Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
Create Checkout Payment Object
Web Checkout
Web Checkout
This object combines all the configurations (session, theme) into a single checkout configuration. Finally, call doPayment()
to open the Cashfree web checkout screen. This will present the user with the payment options and handle the payment process.
UPI Intent Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
This flow is for merchants who wants to quickly provide UPI functionality using cashfree’s mobile SDK without handling other modes like Cards or Net banking.
Setup payment callback
The SDK exposes an interface CFCheckoutResponseCallback
to receive callbacks from the SDK once the payment journey ends.
This interface consists of 2 methods:
Open Checkout Screen
Finally, call doPayment()
to open the Cashfree checkout screen. This will present the user with the payment options and handle the payment process.
Web Checkout
Web Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
UPI Intent Checkout
Step 3: Sample Code
Web Checkout Sample code
Web Checkout Sample code
UPI Intent Checkout Sample code
UPI Intent Checkout Sample code
Step 4: Confirming the Payment
After the payment is completed, you need to confirm whether the payment was successful by checking the order status. Once the payment finishes, the user will be redirected back to your activity to your implementation of the CFCheckoutResponseCallback
interface.
To verify an order you can call our /pg/orders
endpoint from your backend. You can also use our SDK to achieve the same.
Testing
You should now have a working checkout button that redirects your customer to Cashfree Checkout. If your integration isn’t working:
- Open the Network tab in your browser’s developer tools.
- Click the button and check the console logs.
- Use console.log(session) inside your button click listener to confirm the correct error returned.
Error Codes
To confirm the error returned in your android application, you can view the error codes that are exposed by the SDK.
Error Codes
Error Codes
ERROR CODES | MESSAGE |
---|---|
MISSING_CALLBACK | The callback is missing in the request. |
ORDER_ID_MISSING | The “order_id” is missing in the request. |
CARD_EMI_TENURE_MISSING | The “emi_tenure” is missing or invalid (It has to be greater than 0). |
INVALID_UPI_APP_ID_SENT | The id sent is invalid. The value has to be one of the following: “tez://”,“phonepe://”,“paytm://”,“bhim://. Please refer the note in CFUPI class for more details |
INVALID_PAYMENT_OBJECT_SENT | The payment object that is set does not match any payment mode. Please set the correct payment mode and try again. |
WALLET_OBJECT_MISSING | The CFWallet object is missing in the request |
NETBANKING_OBJECT_MISSING | The CFNetbanking object is missing in the request. |
UPI_OBJECT_MISSING | The CFUPI object is missing in the request. |
CARD_OBJECT_MISSING | The CFCard object is missing in the request. |
INVALID_WEB_DATA | The url seems to be corrupt. Please reinstantiate the order. |
SESSION_OBJECT_MISSING | The “session” is missing in the request |
PAYMENT_OBJECT_MISSING | The “payment” is missing in the request |
ENVIRONMENT_MISSING | The “environment” is missing in the request. |
ORDER_TOKEN_MISSING | The “order_token” is missing in the request. |
CHANNEL_MISSING | The “channel” is missing in the request. |
CARD_NUMBER_MISSING | The “card_number” is missing in the request. |
CARD_EXPIRY_MONTH_MISSING | The “card_expiry_mm” is missing in the request. |
CARD_EXPIRY_YEAR_MISSING | The “card_expiry_yy” is missing in the request. |
CARD_CVV_MISSING | The “card_cvv” is missing in the request. |
UPI_ID_MISSING | The “upi_id” is missing in the request |
WALLET_CHANNEL_MISSING | The “channel” is missing in the wallet payment request |
WALLET_PHONE_MISSING | The “phone number” is missing in the wallet payment request |
NB_BANK_CODE_MISSING | The “bank_code” is missing in the request |
WRONG_CALLING_CONTEXT | Calling context must be activity or fragment |
NO_UPI_APP_AVAILABLE | You don’t have any UPI apps installed or ready for payment. |
NO_EMI_PLAN_AVAILABLE | This account does not have EMI plans configured, or the order amount is less than 2499 |
Other Options
(Optional) Custom Initialisation of the SDK
(Optional) Custom Initialisation of the SDK
If you require to initialise the SDK yourself then follow the steps below. Make sure to initialise the SDK in Application class to avoid any Runtime issues.
Add the following to your values.xml file
<bool name="cashfree_pg_core_auto_initialize_enabled">false</bool>
Initialize the SDK yourself before attempting payment
(Optional) Enable logging to debugging issues
(Optional) Enable logging to debugging issues
To enable SDK logging add the following to your values.xml
file.
<integer name="cashfree_pg_logging_level">3</integer>
Following are the Logging levels.
- VERBOSE = 2
- DEBUG = 3
- INFO = 4
- WARN = 5
- ERROR = 6
- ASSERT = 7
(Optional) Disable Quick Checkout in Payment Page
(Optional) Disable Quick Checkout in Payment Page
If you want to disable quick checkout flow in the payment journey you can add the following to your values.xml file.
<bool name="cf_quick_checkout_enabled">false</bool>
(Optional) Disable Encrypted SharedPreference
(Optional) Disable Encrypted SharedPreference
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