# Install in your Android app — Telybot docs

- URL: https://telybot.com/docs/install-android
- Last updated: 2026-10-12

## Install in your Android app

Your assistant can live inside your own app, using the same key and the same training as your website. Nothing to re-set-up.

### What the SDK actually is

It opens the hosted chat page — the same one your bot link uses — inside a WebView, with native presentation, keyboard handling and back-button behaviour around it.

We say that plainly because it decides things for you: a change you make in your dashboard is live in your app **immediately, with no app-store release**, and the chat looks and behaves identically on every platform. The trade-off is that it needs a connection; there is no offline mode.

### Add the dependency

```kotlin
// settings.gradle.kts
dependencyResolutionManagement {
  repositories {
    google()
    mavenCentral()
    maven("https://jitpack.io")
  }
}
```

```kotlin
// app/build.gradle.kts
implementation("com.github.telybotai:telybot-Sdks:v0.2.0")
```

Requires **minSdk 21**. The library brings no third-party dependencies of its own.

### Two lines

```kotlin
// Once — Application.onCreate() or the activity that opens the chat
KeydaBot.init(this, "kb_live_your_key_here")

// From your Help or Contact button
KeydaBot.show(this)
```

That is the whole API. There is also `KeydaBot.dismiss()` and `KeydaBot.isShowing` if you need to close the chat yourself.

### Pointing it somewhere else

```kotlin
KeydaBot.init(this, "kb_live_your_key_here", baseUrl = "https://telybot.com")
```

You only need this for a staging environment or a self-hosted install.

### What it does for you

- **Links open outside the chat.** Anything that navigates away from your chat opens in the browser instead, so a customer never loses their conversation.
- **The keyboard never covers the input.**
- **A failed load shows a retry**, not a crash. Your users are not our users.
- **No analytics and no device identifiers.** Adding the SDK does not add a tracker to your app.

### If the bot is in draft

The chat greets the customer and then says it is not available. Go live from **Overview** in your dashboard and it starts answering — again, with no app release.