Sandbox version of the bunq app

Although Postman offers a great way to interact with our systems you might want to verify how something looks for a end-user in the app. Or you may want to have a device with a 2nd sandbox user to easily make payments with.

Downloads:

• You can download the Sandbox app APK file for Android here

• You can download android Studio here

Setting up a fresh user

• You'll need to create a brand new user person to use the sandbox app.

• The reason for this is that our sandbox environment will only let you pass our security measures on the 1st API call that that user makes.

• As such you'll call the Sandbox Users endpoint.

• From that response note down the aliases (either phone number or email address) write that down for later.

• In the response you'll also find a login code. Usually 000000

• Be sure to not make any other api calls from this user for now.

Installing the sandbox app on your physical device

• Download the APK

  • Ensure it’s saved in your device’s Downloads folder or any other location.

• Enable Unknown Sources (if not enabled)

  • Open Settings → Apps & notifications (or Apps).

  • Tap Special app access → Install unknown apps.

  • Select the app (e.g., Chrome, File Manager) that you’re using to open the APK.

  • Toggle "Allow from this source" ON.

• Install the APK

  • Open File Manager and navigate to the APK file.

  • Tap on the file and press Install.

  • Wait for the installation to complete.

• Open the App

  • Once installed, tap Open to launch the app.

Starting the Android Device Manager

1. Once you have opened Android studio tap the dropdown menu and choose

1. From that screen you can easily create a new device

   1. Start the wizard by clicking on "+ Create Virtual Device".

   2. Select a device (recommendation: "Pixel 5.0" or "Nexus 6") and press "Next".

   3. Select an x86 system image (recommendation: Nougat, API Level 25, Android 7.1.1 with Google APIs) and press "Next". The image needs to have Google Play Services 10.0.1 or higher.

   4. In the bottom left corner, select "Show Advanced Settings".

   5. Scroll to "Memory and Storage".

   6. Change "Internal Storage" to "2048 MB".

   7. Change "SD card" to "200 MB".

   8. Press "Finish".

1. You can now start the virtual device by selecting the play button.

2. Installing thebunq Sandbox App APK

3. From the Virtual device simply navigate to our download link here and download and install the app. You should now have the bunq app on your desktop

Logging into a your user

In the fresh user you just created you saved the phone number or email addres. Now use those to log in to the app. The passcode is usually 000000 or 992266.

If you (for whatever reason) log out and back in again you should be able to since it's the same device. But you won't be able to repeat this on a new device as only the first login on sandbox bypasses our security.

Be aware that you cannot create a user from the signup flow in the app. As we're not reviewing the users created in sandbox manually