Stripe customer management on android using ephemeral keys and volley

Question

I am trying to achieve this on stripe (as shown in the image) on the android SDK . I have already created an endpoint on my server which returns the ephemeral key in this format

{
    "id": "ephkey_EPHEMERAL_KEY_HERE",
    "object": "ephemeral_key",
    "associated_objects": [
        {
            "id": "cus_CUSTOMER_ID_HERE",
            "type": "customer"
        }
    ],
    "created": 1535352558,
    "expires": 1535356158,
    "livemode": true,
    "secret": "ek_live_SECRET_HERE"
}

The stripe documentation here https://stripe.com/docs/mobile/android/standard is however not very clear on how to go about this on the android platform and I am totally lost and confused. I am using volley library for networking on the app. Any pointers on how to go about it?

Answer 1

You need to create a class that implements EphemeralKeyProvider which will communicate with your backend to get the key. Example here .

You then use that class to instantiate a CustomerSession ( example ), and finally create a PaymentSession ( example ), which will use the CustomerSession you created to interact with the Stripe API(via the ephemeral key) to manage the customer's payment sources.