Implement Adobe Experience Cloud in mobile apps tutorial

Last update: April 29, 2025

CREATED FOR:

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Developer

Learn how to implement Adobe Experience Cloud applications in your mobile app using Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDK.

Experience Platform Mobile SDK is a client-side SDK that allows customers of Adobe Experience Cloud to interact with both Adobe applications and third-party services through the Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network. See the Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDK documentation for more detailed information.

Architecture

This tutorial guides you through the implementation of the Platform Mobile SDK in a sample retail app called Luma. The Luma app has functionality that lets you build a realistic implementation. After completing this tutorial, you should be ready to start implementing all of your marketing solutions through Experience Platform Mobile SDK in your own mobile apps.

The lessons are designed for iOS and written in Swift/SwiftUI, but many of the concepts also apply to Android™.

After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:

NOTE
A similar multi-solution tutorial is available for Web SDK.

Permissions

In these lessons, it is assumed that you have an Adobe Id and the required user-level permissions to complete the exercises. If not, you should reach out to your Adobe Administrator to request access.

  • In Data Collection, you must have:

    • Platforms—permission item Mobile

    • Property Rights—permission items to Develop, Approve, Publish, Manage Extensions, and Manage Environments.

    • Company Rights—permission items to Manage Properties

      For more information on tag permissions, see User permissions for tags in the product documentation.

  • In Experience Platform, you must have:

    • Data Modeling—permission items to manage and view schemas.

    • Identity Management—permission items to manage and view identity namespaces.

    • Data Collection—permission items to manage and view datastreams.

    • If you are the customer of a Platform-based application like Real-Time CDP, Journey Optimizer, or Customer Journey Analytics, and will do the related lessons you should also have:

      • Data Management—permission items to manage and view datasets.
      • A development sandbox which you can use for this tutorial.

    • For the Journey Optimizer lessons, you need permissions to configure the push notification service and to create an app surface, a journey, a message, and message presets. For Decision Management, you need the proper permissions to manage offers and decisions as described here.

  • For Adobe Analytics, you must know which report suites you can use to complete this tutorial.

  • For Adobe Target, you must have permission to create and activate activities.

NOTE
As part of this tutorial, you create schemas, datasets, identities, and so on. If multiple people are going through this tutorial in a single sandbox, consider appending or prepending an identification as part of your naming conventions when creating these objects. For example, add - <your name or initials> to the name of the object you are instructed to create.