Stripe Connect Android

Question

I am building an android app which pays someone. I explored Stripe Connect and it has an API and flow for website which requires displaying a stripe connect button and also needs a re-direct uri.

However, I can not find anything on for Android which allows to show a connect button and prompt user to create or connect a stripe account natively on Android device. Should I use a webview to do this or is there some more elegant way to do this?

Answer 1

As far as I know, there're no native SDK for mobile stripe connect. I did the webview route for android. Was trivial, but I agree that I wished there're a more elegant solution to this.

For those who are wondering on how to do this (since I can't find any doc out there), here you go:

1. Create a button that will open a new intent with a web view.

2. The webview should load the oauth/authorize endpoint ("https://connect.stripe.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=[YOUR_API_KEY]&scope=read_write"). Do not forget to enable javascript on your webview.

3. Once the form in webview is filled, Stripe will redirect to the redirect_url you provided with the authorization code if the authorization is successful. Have your web service parse that authorization code.

4. Have your service make a post to stripe oauth/token with providing grant_type, client_id, code, and client_secret.

5. Stripe will then respond back with the token (auth credentials) that you needed. Store that for later use & you're pretty much done.