generated: '2026-08-15'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developer.validic.com/docs/using-the-inform-mobile-sdk +
  https://github.com/validic + registry metadata endpoints (rubygems.org,
  repo.packagist.org, registry.npmjs.org, pypi.org)
description: >-
  Validic's client-library estate splits cleanly in two. The SUPPORTED half is
  the Inform Mobile SDK (v2.x) for iOS, Android and Cordova - genuinely
  first-party and actively maintained, but distributed from a CREDENTIALED
  private Artifactory instance (validic.jfrog.io), so it has no public registry
  metadata and no publicly readable version or release date. The PUBLIC half is
  a set of server-side REST wrappers on GitHub, all of which the company has
  archived; the newest public release is from 2016.
summary:
  official_packages: 8
  publicly_installable: 3
  publicly_installable_and_maintained: 0
  gated_behind_credentials: 5
  latest_public_release: '2016-12-19'
  note: >-
    Every server-side SDK a developer can install without contacting Validic
    is archived and roughly a decade old, and predates the v2 Inform API those
    developers are being pointed at. The maintained SDKs are mobile-only and
    require an Artifactory account. There is no supported public
    Python / Node / Ruby / PHP / Go / Java client for the current API.
packages:
- language: swift
  registry: artifactory
  name: ValidicMobile.ValidicCore
  url: https://validic.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/swift/mobile-swift
  install: swift package-registry set "https://validic.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/swift/mobile-swift" --scope=ValidicMobile --global
  official: true
  maintained: true
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Inform Native iOS SDK, Swift Package Manager, scope `ValidicMobile`.
    Sibling frameworks in the same scope: ValidicBluetooth, ValidicHealthKit,
    ValidicOCR, ValidicOneTouch. version/published are null because the
    registry is a PRIVATE Artifactory Swift registry - it requires an
    Artifactory username plus an encrypted password or identity token, so
    there is no unauthenticated metadata endpoint to read a version from. A
    developer cannot tell what version they will get either until they have
    credentials.
  docs: https://developer.validic.com/docs/native-ios-mobile-inform-sdk-installation
  access: contact Validic Support for Artifactory credentials
- language: swift
  registry: manual
  name: Validic iOS xcframeworks
  url: https://developer.validic.com/docs/native-ios-mobile-inform-sdk-installation
  install: extract .xcframework files from the Frameworks directory of the Validic release zip
  official: true
  maintained: true
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Manual distribution path for teams not using SPM. Unversioned in public -
    the release zip is delivered through support, so there is no public
    version or date to record.
- language: kotlin
  registry: artifactory
  name: validicmobile-shared
  url: https://validic.jfrog.io/artifactory/mobile-release/
  install: 'maven { url "https://validic.jfrog.io/artifactory/mobile-release/" } // credentials required'
  official: true
  maintained: true
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Inform Native Android SDK, published to a credentialed Artifactory Maven
    repository. The Shared module is always required; feature modules
    (Health Connect, Bluetooth, VitalSnap/OCR, LifeScan) are added as needed.
    Also distributed as .aar files inside a downloadable zip containing a local
    Maven repository (`validic-repository`). Not on Maven Central - searched,
    absent - so there is no public version metadata.
  docs: https://developer.validic.com/docs/native-android-mobile-inform-sdk-installation
  access: contact Validic Support for Artifactory credentials
- language: javascript
  registry: artifactory-npm
  name: '@validic-mobile/cordova-inform-core'
  url: https://validic.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/mobile-npm-release/
  install: npm install @validic-mobile/cordova-inform-core --save && cordova plugin add @validic-mobile/cordova-inform-core
  official: true
  maintained: true
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Cordova wrapper for the Inform SDK, on a PRIVATE Artifactory npm registry.
    Requires an .npmrc entry scoping @validic-mobile to
    validic.jfrog.io with an _authToken. Confirmed ABSENT from public npm -
    https://registry.npmjs.org/@validic-mobile%2Fcordova-inform-core returns
    404 - so version/published are unreadable without credentials. Sibling
    plugins: @validic-mobile/cordova-inform-ble,
    @validic-mobile/cordova-inform-healthkit.
  docs: https://developer.validic.com/docs/cordova-mobile-inform-wrapper-installation
  access: Artifactory npm token via validic.jfrog.io "Set Me Up"
- language: typescript
  registry: github
  name: inform-quickstart
  url: https://github.com/validic/inform-quickstart
  install: git clone https://github.com/validic/inform-quickstart.git && npm run quickstart
  official: true
  maintained: true
  version: null
  published: '2026-08-12'
  note: >-
    Not a client library - two runnable sample apps (a Node/Express quickstart
    and a Next.js API "explorer" workbench) that exercise the Inform API end to
    end. MIT licensed, Node 22+, CI green. `published` is the last push date
    from the GitHub API, not a release: the repo publishes no tags or releases,
    so `version` is null. This is the ONLY actively maintained public code
    Validic ships and it is the de-facto replacement for the archived SDKs.
  license: MIT
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: validic
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/validic
  install: gem install validic
  official: true
  maintained: false
  archived: true
  version: 0.6.1
  published: '2016-12-19'
  downloads: 66190
  source_code: https://github.com/validic/validic
  note: >-
    First-party Ruby wrapper. Publicly installable, but last released
    2016-12-19 and the GitHub repo was archived in 2018. Nine and a half years
    stale against a v2 API - the strongest abandonment signal in this artifact,
    and it still has 66k downloads pulling people toward it.
- language: php
  registry: packagist
  name: validic/validic
  url: https://packagist.org/packages/validic/validic
  install: composer require validic/validic
  official: true
  maintained: false
  archived: true
  version: 1.0.0
  published: '2016-10-24'
  downloads: 468
  source_code: https://github.com/Validic/ValidicPHP
  note: >-
    First-party PHP wrapper. One release ever (1.0.0, 2016-10-24); GitHub repo
    archived 2018.
- language: csharp
  registry: github
  name: ValidicCSharpWrapper
  url: https://github.com/validic/ValidicCSharpWrapper
  install: clone from source
  official: true
  maintained: false
  archived: true
  version: null
  published: '2017-07-13'
  note: >-
    First-party C# wrapper for the Validic REST API. Never published to NuGet -
    searched, absent - so `version` is null; `published` is the last push
    recorded by the GitHub API. Archived.
- language: javascript
  registry: github
  name: ValidicNodeJS
  url: https://github.com/validic/ValidicNodeJS
  install: clone from source
  official: true
  maintained: false
  archived: true
  version: null
  published: '2015-07-25'
  note: >-
    First-party Node.js wrapper. Never published to npm - `npm` returns no
    results for "validic" at all - so `version` is null. Archived.
- language: python
  registry: github
  name: PythonValidic
  url: https://github.com/validic/PythonValidic
  install: clone from source
  official: true
  maintained: false
  archived: true
  version: null
  published: '2014-08-11'
  note: >-
    First-party Python wrapper. Confirmed absent from PyPI (pypi.org/pypi/validic/json
    -> 404), so `version` is null. Archived. Twelve years old.
third_party:
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: validic_api
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/validic_api
  version: 0.1.0
  published: '2022-08-03'
  official: false
  note: >-
    Community gem describing itself as an "API Wrapper for Validic API v2". No
    homepage or source URI declared on the gem and no link from Validic's own
    docs, so it is recorded as third-party, not first-party.
registries_checked:
- registry: npm
  result: no packages found for "validic"; @validic-mobile scope is private (404 on public npm)
- registry: pypi
  result: 404 for "validic" and "pyvalidic"
- registry: rubygems
  result: 'validic 0.6.1 (first-party, archived); validic_api 0.1.0 (third-party)'
- registry: packagist
  result: validic/validic 1.0.0 (first-party, archived)
- registry: maven-central
  result: absent - Android SDK is on private Artifactory only
- registry: nuget
  result: absent - C# wrapper was never published
- registry: pkg.go.dev
  result: absent - no Go client
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com