Payments platform Braintree this week released a new SDK that introduced full PayPal support for its clients. Braintree joined the eBay family when it was acquired last year.

"Supporting PayPal as a payment method in the Braintree Gateway has always been one of the most frequent requests from our customers," the company wrote in a blog post. "So from the moment we joined forces with PayPal in December 2013, we have been working hard to make accepting PayPal as simple as we made accepting credit cards, and we are thrilled to release this feature today for our U.S.-based customers."

Braintree's emphasis in the new SDK is the mobile experience as consumers' shopping habits shift to smartphones. 

"We went back to the drawing board and designed a system that is simple to integrate and easy to extend," Braintree wrote. "To achieve this, we leverage a secure, direct line of communication with mobile apps and Web browsers. One-time-use tokens ensure that your server implementation has a smaller footprint than ever, enabling you to process all payment instruments and platforms in a single code path."