SDK Guides

📄️ Getting Started

You'll go from zero to connected device in about 15 minutes. This guide covers everything you need to set up the SDK and establish your first connection.

📄️ Resource Management

Templates and fonts live on the device, not in your app. Before you can print, you need to upload them. This guide shows you how.

📄️ Printing

This is the good part. Let's put ink on paper.

📄️ Scanning

Point, scan, done. Let's turn those black and white lines into data.

📄️ Callbacks

Things happen. The connection drops. The printer runs out of paper. A print job finishes. Callbacks let your app respond in real-time.

📄️ Logging

When something goes wrong (and it will), logs are your best friend. The SDK uses SLF4J with Logback-Android — industry standards that give you full control over what gets logged and where.

📄️ Error Handling

Things don't always go as planned. This guide covers how to handle errors gracefully in the AD Device Manager SDK, including a comprehensive error code reference with recovery recommendations.

📄️ Firmware Management

Keep your Pathfinder Edge devices up to date with the latest firmware. This guide covers how to check the current firmware version and update device firmware using the SDK.

Note: NFC functionality is not part of the AD Device Manager SDK. It is a standard Android platform feature. This guide shows how NFC is used in the Quick Start application as a reference implementation — for reading a printer's Bluetooth MAC address from an NFC tag and writing a MAC address to one.

📄️ RFID Printing

This guide explains how to print labels and simultaneously encode RFID inlays using the AD Device Manager SDK.