What is cometchat-android-v5-sdk?

A headless Android chat software development kit for building a custom chat interface with CometChat. Headless means it supplies chat operations and events but leaves the screens and visual design to the app.

Use it to initialize and authenticate chat, send and receive messages, load older pages, and connect CometChat to custom Android screens or backend-style code.

It is suited to apps that need their own design or need to use chat functions outside a standard chat screen. It also documents ordering, pagination, and listener cleanup that can otherwise cause missing or duplicated messages.

cometchat-android-v5-sdk — Skill for Claude Code by cometchat

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add cometchat/cometchat-skills --skill cometchat-android-v5-sdk

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cometchat/cometchat-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cometchat-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,031 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00119	$0.04031
Opus 5.5	$0.00048	$0.01612
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00024	$0.00806
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00403

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5489a3d12b06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cometchat-android-v5-sdk scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cometchat-android-v5-sdk/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ground truth: catalog sdk-android-v5.json (curated from the INSTALLED com.cometchat:chat-sdk-android:5.0.5 AAR — the existence oracle) + features.sdk-android-v5.json + contracts.sdk-android-v5.json (sdk-chat-surface — the completeness floor). Docs: references/docs-map.md. ⚠️ Android SDK v5 pages are VERSIONED (/sdk/android/v5/…); the unversioned tree is v4. Verify symbols against the catalog; fetch signatures from docs; never trust memory.

Companion skills (read first)

This skill is self-contained for headless builds — it does not depend on a UI Kit core. But: if the user wants ready-made chat UI, the UI Kit is the better answer — say so and route to cometchat-android-v6-core (drop-in components, far less code). Come here when they explicitly want their own UI, a non-chat surface, or backend-style usage.

Use this skill when

"use the CometChat SDK directly", "build chat with my own UI/design system", "I don't want the UI Kit", "send/receive messages programmatically", "custom chat screen in Compose backed by CometChat".

Prerequisites & install

// settings.gradle(.kts) → dependencyResolutionManagement.repositories
maven("https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/cometchat/cometchat/maven/")
// app/build.gradle.kts
implementation("com.cometchat:chat-sdk-android:5.0.5")     // + calls-sdk-android:5.0.4 for calling

# gradle.properties — REQUIRED: chat-sdk-android 5.0.5 still pulls android.arch.lifecycle:extensions:1.1.1 → com.android.support:support-compat:26.1.0
android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

Jetifier is not optional. Without android.enableJetifier=true an AndroidX app fails checkDebugDuplicateClasses (Duplicate class android.support.v4.app.INotificationSideChannel … androidx.core:core and com.android.support:support-compat:26.1.0). Verified 2026-09-07 (removing the line reproduces it); dependencyInsight --dependency support-compat shows the chain. Calling (calls-sdk-android:5.0.4) additionally needs minSdk 26 + the SoLoader init + a manifest <service> — cometchat-android-v5-calls-sdk Prerequisites. Manifest needs android.permission.INTERNET. Credentials live in the gitignored app/src/main/assets/cometchat-settings.json (appId, region, credentials.authKey dev-only). The optional chatSDK section carries SDK-level overrides; init succeeds without it, so omit it for a minimal build — BUT one override is load-bearing for a required surface:

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 128 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 5489a3d12b06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cometchat-android-v5-sdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository cometchat/cometchat-skills (150 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 4,031 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-12.

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