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SDK Initialization

The recommended way to initialize the SDK is by adding a License key in the AndroidManifest.xml file. 

 <meta-data
    android:name="com.microblink.recognition.License"
    android:value="LICENSE KEY" />

By doing so, our content provider will be used, and it will automatically initialize all that is necessary for the SDK to work.

Manual initialization

If you want to manually initialize the SDK, first, you should remove our content provider from the AndroidManifest.xml file, as shown in the snippet below.

<provider
    android:name="com.microblink.recognition.core.RecognitionProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.RecognitionProvider"
    tools:node="remove" />

After that, you should call BlinkRecognitionSdk.initialize() to initialize the SDK. There are a couple of ways how this can be achieved, we recommend using App Startup. Another way is to add the initialization code in the Application class in the onCreate method.

The license key should be set in AndroidManifest.xml as mentioned in the section above.