Customizing the measurement experience

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Once you've successfully integrated the Shen AI SDK, you can tailor the measurement experience to match your product and your users.

Whether you're building a consumer wellness app, a telemedicine platform, or an insurance solution, the SDK offers a range of configuration options that help you create a consistent, branded experience without changing the underlying measurement technology.

This guide introduces the available customization options and points you to the relevant documentation for each area.

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Choose the level of customization that's right for your product

Shen AI supports different levels of customization, depending on how much control you want over the user experience.

If you're looking for the fastest path to integration, you can use the built-in measurement experience and customize it to match your application.

Using Remote Configuration through the SDK Playground, you can configure many aspects of the measurement flow without releasing a new version of your app. For example, you can:

- adjust the color theme, including primary, background, text, tile, and button colors,
- enable or hide interface elements such as progress indicators, face positioning overlays, visual warnings, or information buttons,
- configure the scan experience, including measurement duration, displayed metrics, and health indices.

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This approach lets you deliver a branded experience while relying on the SDK's built-in measurement flow and user guidance, significantly reducing the amount of UI and configuration you need to build yourself.

If you need complete control over the experience, you can build your own user interface and use the Shen AI SDK as the measurement engine. This gives you the flexibility to design every step of the user journey - from onboarding to displaying the final results, while relying on the SDK to perform measurements and return the results.

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Make changes without updating your app

Many customization options can be managed through Remote Configuration in the SDK Playground. Instead of releasing a new version of your application for every UI adjustment, you can update supported settings remotely. This makes it easier to refine the measurement experience, test different configurations, or enable new features as your product evolves.

For example, you can adjust your application's color theme, enable or hide UI elements, choose which metrics and health indices are displayed, or configure the measurement flow, all without requiring your users to download an app update.

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Best practices

A well-designed measurement experience helps users complete scans successfully. When customizing the SDK, we recommend that you:

- keep instructions clear and easy to follow,
- maintain consistent branding throughout the measurement flow,
- avoid unnecessary distractions while a scan is in progress,
- test your customized experience with representative users before releasing it,
- use Remote Configuration to roll out changes gradually where appropriate.

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Small design improvements can have a significant impact on measurement completion rates and the overall user experience.

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