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The Android Libary is written in JAVA and it contains all the code that a developer will need to connect to any of the supported Cloud Services, and to perform the supported Actions. In a series of articles we will describe this code and we will give example of its usage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We use the Library by creating an instance of the Rainbow<\/a> class. In order to do this, however, we need first to initialize it by calling the static method init:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainbow.init(<Context>);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You call this method only once in your app. The <Context<\/strong>> can be the application context or the root activity. If your app has only one activity then it is OK to set it to the context of that activity. Otherwise, it should be the application context. Then, we get the instance of the Rainbow class by calling the getInstance() method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rainbow rainbow = Rainbow.getInstance();<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
We use that instance to get the list of available Cloud Services. If a user is already connected to a service, that instance will give us an object of that account. Once we have that object we can perform all  supported actions on that Cloud Account. But, before we get there it is important to describe the way that the Rainbow Library is designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The code of the Rainbow SDK consists of five packages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n