The Particle Device Setup library provides everything you need to offer your users a simple initial setup process for Particle-powered devices. This includes all the necessary device communication code, an easily customizable UI, and a simple developer API.
The setup UI can be easily customized by a modifying Android XML resource files. Available customizations include: look & feel, colors, fonts, custom brand logos and more. Customization isn't required for a nice looking setup process, though: good defaults are used throughout, with styling generally following Google's Material Design guidelines.
With the Device Setup library, you only need to make one simple call from your app, and the Particle setup process UI launches to guide the user through the device setup process. When that process finishes, the user is returned to the Activity where they were left off, and a broadcast intent is sent out with the ID of the device she just set up and claimed.
The wireless setup process for the Photon uses very different underlying technology from the Core. The Core used SmartConfig, while the Photon uses what we call a “soft AP” mode: during setup, the Photon advertises itself as a Wi-Fi network. The mobile app configures the Android device to connect to this soft AP network, and using this connection, it can provide the Particle device with the credentials it needs for the Wi-Fi network you want the to Photon to use.
Full documentation, including a getting started guide, lots of API examples, support & feedback links, and more are all available from our documentation page: https://docs.particle.io/reference/android/
The Particle Device Setup library is available under the Apache License 2.0.
See the LICENSE file for the complete text of the license.