Developer's Guide

12 July 2011 PayPal Mobile Payments Developer Guide and Reference – Android OS Edition

Parameter

Description

style:

(Required) Size and appearance of the Pay with PayPal button

Allowable values are:

 PayPal.BUTTON_152x33

 PayPal.BUTTON_194x37

 PayPal.BUTTON_278x43

 PayPal.BUTTON_294x45

For images of the different button types, see “Enumerated Values in the

Mobile Payments Library” on page 28.

context:

(Required) The context

textType:

(Required) The type of button to be used. The type will determine the

text that is to be used on the button. This has no bearing on the payment

and only affects the button itself. Allowable values are:

 CheckoutButton.TEXT_PAY

 CheckoutButton.TEXT_DONATE

Start the Library Activity

The Library uses the native Android Activity mechanism to start the checkout flow, and to

communicate completion back to you. In addition to the onActivityResult callback, you can

implement PayPalResultDelegate to be informed immediately upon successful completion of

a payment.

To start the PayPal payment, you must start the Library activity, using the Android method

startActivityForResult. Do this when buyers touch the Pay with PayPal button (which

you placed on your page with the getCheckoutButton method)

You must first create the PayPal intent and give it the Payment object. There are two types of

payment objects. PayPalPayment handles simple payments, which support single receivers of

payments with one transaction and a few details. PayPalAdvancedPayment handles parallel

and chained payments, which support multiple receivers of payment with one transaction and

with additional details, such as invoice data.

In the following example, the buyer checks out with a simple payment for a single recipient:

PayPalPayment newPayment = new PayPalPayment();

newPayment.setSubtotal(10.f);

newPayment.setCurrency("USD");

newPayment.setRecipient("my@email.com");

newPayment.setMerchantName("My Company");

Intent paypalIntent = PayPal.getInstance().checkout(newPayment, this);

this.startActivityForResult(paypalIntent, 1);