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Developer interface

There are two main ways to interact with Wire using the SDK:

  1. Reacting to received events by subclassing WireEventsHandler
  2. Triggering actions using the WireApplicationManager

Receiving events​

The SDK receives events continuously after you use startListening(). The http connection, deserialization, authentication and decrypting are performed by the Application, so you will receive the event as a WireMessage.

You can handle different events and perform any action you want. This is done inside the method override of WireEventsHandler. When you create a class to subclass the WireEventsHandler, inside each event you have access to a field called manager of type WireApplicationManager.

The manager allows you to interact with Wire, from creating conversations, fetching users to sending messages. You can use it while receiving events and/or directly use it directly in your code (e.g a scheduled job uses WireApplicationManager to fetch conversations, or a webhook you create triggers a message being sent in Wire).

Check all the events in Wire Events

Interacting with Wire​

WireApplicationManager has two versions of each function, one "suspending" and the other in normal blocking fashion. If you are using Java just look at the non-suspending methods, while in Kotlin you can choose to leverage coroutines (with suspending functions) or not.

Here are some example of things you can do via the SDK to interact with the Wire ecosystem with your App: