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Migration Guide

This document provides guidance on how to migrate from the old version of the SDK to a newer version. It will be updated as new versions are released including deprecations or breaking changes.

3.0.0

Improvements

  • The Klaviyo Android SDK now automatically tracks changes to the user's notification permission whenever the app is opened or resumed.
  • Additionally, the SDK will now hold the push token internally after you resetProfile and automatically attach the token to the next profile. This is a change from past behavior where the token would need to be explicitly set again after resetting.

Breaking Changes

  • The ProfileKey options deprecated in 2.3.0 have been removed
  • Klaviyo.lifecycleCallbacks, deprecated in 2.1.0 has been removed

2.3.0 Deprecations

Deprecated ProfileKey objects pertaining to identifiers

The following ProfileKey objects have been deprecated in favor of using the explicit setter/getter functions designated for identifiers.

  • ProfileKey.EXTERNAL_ID
  • ProfileKey.EMAIL
  • ProfileKey.PHONE_NUMBER

For convenience, we added optional arguments to the Profile constructor for each. The following code:

val profile = Profile(mapOf(
    ProfileKey.EXTERNAL_ID to "abc123",
    ProfileKey.EMAIL to "[email protected]",
    ProfileKey.PHONE_NUMBER to "+12223334444",
    ProfileKey.FIRST_NAME to "first_name",
    ProfileKey.LAST_NAME to "last_name",
))

can be converted to:

val profile = Profile(
    externalId = "abc123",
    email = "[email protected]",
    phoneNumber = "+12223334444", 
    properties = mapOf(
        ProfileKey.FIRST_NAME to "first_name",
        ProfileKey.LAST_NAME to "last_name",
    )
)

2.1.0 Deprecations

Deprecated Klaviyo.lifecycleCallbacks

In an effort to reduce setup code required to integrate the Klaviyo Android SDK, we have deprecated the public property Klaviyo.lifecycleCallbacks and will now register for lifecycle callbacks automatically upon initialize. It is no longer required to have this line in your Application.onCreate() method:

registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(Klaviyo.lifecycleCallbacks)

For version 2.1.x, Klaviyo.lifecycleCallbacks has been replaced with a no-op implementation to avoid duplicative listeners, and will be removed altogether in the next major release.

2.0.0 Breaking Changes

Removed EventType in favor of EventMetric.

The reasoning is explained below, see 1.4.0 Deprecations for details and code samples. Additionally, for consistent naming conventions Event.type has been renamed to Event.metric, including all argument labels in Event constructors. For example:

//Old code: Will no longer compile
val event = Event(type="Custom Event")

//New code: Corrected argument label
val event = Event(metric="Custom Event")

Corrected Event.value from String to Double

In version 1.x, Event.value was incorrectly typed as String. Klaviyo's API expects value to be numeric, and while the backend will implicitly convert a numeric string to a number, it is better to be explicit about the type.

// Old code: accepted strings (though still would be converted to a number on the server)
val event = Event("Test").setValue("1.0")
// Or
val event = Event("Test")
event.value = "1.0"

//New code: type has been corrected to Double
val event = Event("Test").setValue(1.0)
// Or
val event = Event("Test")
event.value = 1.0

1.4.0 Deprecations

Deprecated EventType in favor of EventMetric

It was recently discovered that the Android SDK was using legacy event names for some common events, like "Viewed Product" and some events that are associated with server actions, like "Ordered Product." As a result, if your account used these standard events, they were being logged with names like "$viewed_product" in contrast to website generated events which are logged as "Viewed Product."

In order to bring the Android SDK in line with Klaviyo's other integrations, we deprecated EventType and introduced EventMetric with corrected spellings. The old EventType values will still compile with a deprecation warning.

// Old code: Will log the legacy event names
import com.klaviyo.analytics.model.EventType

Klaviyo.createEvent(Event(EventType.VIEWED_PRODUCT))
Klaviyo.createEvent(Event(EventType.SEARCHED_PRODUCTS))
// New code: Will log the corrected event metric name
import com.klaviyo.analytics.model.EventMetric

Klaviyo.createEvent(Event(EventMetric.VIEWED_PRODUCT))
// If you still require old event names, you can use the CUSTOM metric e.g. 
Klaviyo.createEvent(Event(EventMetric.CUSTOM("\$viewed_product")))
Klaviyo.createEvent(Event(EventMetric.CUSTOM("\$searched_products")))