Mobile SDK Development Guide

Introduction to Mobile Development
Introduction to Salesforce Mobile SDK Development
What’s New in Mobile SDK 11.1
Getting Started With Mobile SDK 11.1 for iOS and Android
Updating Apps (5.0 and Later) Apps (5.0 and Later)
Native iOS Development
Native Android Development
HTML5 and Hybrid Development
Using Lightning Web Components in Hybrid Apps
React Native Development
Offline Management
Files and Networking
Push Notifications and
Authentication, Security, and Identity in Mobile Apps
Login Screen Customization
Identity Provider Apps
Using Key-Value Stores for Secure Data Storage
Dark Mode and Dark Theme Settings
Using Experience Cloud Sites With Mobile SDK Apps
Multi-User Support in Mobile SDK
About Multi-User Support
Implementing Multi-User Support
Android Native APIs
UserAccount Class
UserAccountManager Class
AccountSwitcherActivity Class
UserSwitchReceiver Class
iOS Native APIs
Hybrid APIs
Mobile SDK Tools for Developers
Logging and Analytics
Migrating from the Previous Release
Reference
iOS Current Deprecations
iOS APIs Removed in Mobile SDK 11.0
Android Current Deprecations
Android APIs Removed in Mobile SDK 11.0
Trademark Attributions
Removing UIWebView from iOS Hybrid Apps
PDF

Android Native APIs

Native classes in Mobile SDK for Android do most of the work for multi-user support. Your app makes a few simple calls and handles any data cached in memory. You also have the option of customizing the user switching activity.
To support user switching, Mobile SDK for Android defines native classes in the com.salesforce.androidsdk.accounts, com.salesforce.androidsdk.ui, and com.salesforce.androidsdk.util packages. Classes in the com.salesforce.androidsdk.accounts package include:
  • UserAccount
  • UserAccountManager

The com.salesforce.androidsdk.ui package contains the AccountSwitcherActivity class. You can extend this class to add advanced customizations to the account switcher activity.

The com.salesforce.androidsdk.util package contains the UserSwitchReceiver abstract class. You must implement this class if your app caches data other than tokens.

The following sections briefly describe these classes. For full API reference documentation, see https://forcedotcom.github.io/SalesforceMobileSDK-Android/index.html.

Multi-User Flow

For native Android apps, the UserAccountManager.switchToUser() Mobile SDK method launches the multi-user flow. Once your app calls this method, the Mobile SDK core handles the execution flow through all possible paths. The following diagram illustrates this flow.

switchToUser() flow diagram