Please update documentation

[Maartenb111]

Describe the bug

Please update documentation at https://help.branch.io/developers-hub/docs/capacitor (and keep version history of it). For example, Android Branch SDK dependency type changed from implementation to api.

P.s. tried to report this as a documentation issue but the button 'Suggest edits' is not on the documentation page :-/

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SDK Version

5

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[Sampath-Lokuge]

Did they update the docs now?

[Saqib92]

any update?

[GiannisS]

Documentation suggests that it got "Updated 5 days ago" but it's definitely incomplete. For example here https://help.branch.io/developers-hub/docs/capacitor#android it suggests that we should update build.gradle with these dependencies

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    defaultConfig {
        // ...
+       multiDexEnabled true
        // ...
    }
}

dependencies {
+    implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:18.0.1") // AAID
}

but if you try to build your app in android studio with just these dependencies you are getting errors. The correct documentation should also mention we have to add all these

    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:18.0.1'
    implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-appindexing:19.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.browser:browser:1.2.0'
    implementation 'io.branch.sdk.android:library:5.0.15'

[viking2917]

@GiannisS Thank you for this! In my case, I am on Capacitor 6, and I only had to add:

    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:18.0.1'
    implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'

do you know whether the firebase-appindexing, browser, and sdk.android:library are still required?

[viking2917]

also, I did a 'Suggest Edits' on the Branch documentation page, maybe they will take it :)

[GiannisS]

@GiannisS Thank you for this! In my case, I am on Capacitor 6, and I only had to add:

    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:18.0.1'
    implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'

do you know whether the firebase-appindexing, browser, and sdk.android:library are still required?

sorry I haven't worked on the plugin for the last month so I am not sure about the firebase-appindexing, browser, and sdk.android:library