malvernbright / android-paypal-example

Mini E-commerce android application that uses PayPal gateway with Node.js backend to verify payments and Firebase as database to store products , sales and payment information .

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PayPal Android Example

Mini E-commerce android application that uses PayPal gateway with Node.js backend to verify payments and Firebase as database to store products , sales and payment information .

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

• git
• npm install
• node.js
• facebook app to get facebook_app_id .
• firebase account .
• PayPal Account .
• Heroku account if u want to deploy live .

Installing

• clone the project then navigate to server folder and execute

npm install

this command will install the required libraries that will be used for our Node.js back-end .

• assuming you already created firebase project :-
  

  • Import database.json file in project folder to your firebase project database.
  • Enable Facebook Authentication from firebase project dashboard .
  • Generate New Private Key :
    Project Setting -> SERVICE ACCOUNTS -> Firebase Admin SDK -> GENERATE NEW PRIVATE KEY
    this will create and download .json file containing the required credentials for firebase admin .
    
  • Copy the downloaded file into node_modules folder.

• go to PayPal developer :-
  

  • create new App to get the client_id and client_secret
    
  • create two accounts ( Business - Personal ) to be used for testing .

• open index.js file and do the necessary changes .

Running the tests

• first step is to run our server locally so navigate to server folder and execute

node index.js

if everything works as expected you should see a log messages says

Magic happens on port 5000

• open Android Studio and import the Android project then go to strings.xml and Config.java file and do the nessecary changes .

• add google-services.json file of your firebase project to the android app folder .

• when you come to the part where u should enter paypal login info to complete the buying process , login with the personl account previously created for testing then login to paypal sandbox with the Business account to see the transactions .
  

• That's it you did it :)
  

Dependencies

• Android-ActionItemBadge - https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-ActionItemBadge
  

Developed By

• Omar Ali
• [email protected]
• paypal.me/OmarAliSaid
  

License

Copyright 2017 Omar Ali

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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