Add Chat SDK to your project

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Make sure you've added the following to your gradle.properties file:
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android.useAndroidX=true
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android.enableJetifier=true
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Inherit from Chat SDK theme
The Chat SDK uses custom attributes so you need to make sure that your app inherits from the Chat SDK theme.
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<style name="AppTheme" parent="ChatSDKTheme">
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Add Gradle dependencies
Project-level build.gradle
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buildscript {
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    dependencies {
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        classpath "com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.10"
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        ...
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    }
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    ...
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}
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​
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allprojects {
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    repositories {
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        google()
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        mavenCentral()
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​
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        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
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        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/chat-sdk-android" }
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        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/chatkit" }
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        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/matisse" }
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        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/material-search-view" }
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        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/android-image-cropper" }
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    }
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}
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App-level build.gradle
Enable multi-dex, Java 8 and the Google Services plugin:
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apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
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android {
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    defaultConfig {
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        multiDexEnabled = true
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        ...
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    }
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    compileOptions {
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        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
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        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
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    }
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}
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Then add the dependencies. Replace the [latest-version] with 5.4.2.
For a working example check: 
​https://github.com/chat-sdk/chat-sdk-android-example​
Choose one of the following backends to use:
Firebase
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implementation "sdk.chat:firebase-app:[latest-version]"
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FireStream (beta)
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implementation "sdk.chat:firestream-app:[latest-version]"
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XMPP
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implementation "sdk.chat:xmpp-app:[latest-version]"
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Add the Chat SDK to a non-Firebase app
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