Add Chat SDK to your project

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Android X
Make sure you've added the following to your gradle.properties file:
android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true
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.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="ChatSDKTheme">
Add Gradle dependencies
Project-level build.gradle
buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath "com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.10"
        ...
    }
    ...
}
​
allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
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        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/chat-sdk-android" }
        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/chatkit" }
        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/matisse" }
        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/material-search-view" }
        maven { url "https://chatsdk.jfrog.io/artifactory/release/android-image-cropper" }
    }
}
App-level build.gradle
Enable multi-dex, Java 8 and the Google Services plugin:
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
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android {
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    defaultConfig {
        multiDexEnabled = true
        ...
    }
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    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}
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
implementation "sdk.chat:firebase-app:[latest-version]"
FireStream (beta)
implementation "sdk.chat:firestream-app:[latest-version]"
XMPP
implementation "sdk.chat:xmpp-app:[latest-version]"
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