Spot.IM React-Native Module 🚀

This library provides an easy integration with Spot.IM into a React-Native app.

Requirements

• iOS 10.3 or later.
• Android SDK verison (API 19) and above.
• Have a Spot.IM account

Getting started

Install react-native-spotim package

@spot.im/react-native-spotim

1. Install and add the package to your project: npm install @spot.im/react-native-spotim --save
2. Import Spot.IM modules: import { SpotIM, SpotIMEventEmitter, SpotIMAPI } from '@spot.im/react-native-spotim';
3. When the app starts, call the init method with your spot-id to initilize the SDK SpotIMAPI.init("spot-id");

Use Spot.IM native view

iOS

1. Go to the project ios folder and make sure use_frameworks! is set in the Podfile
2. If you're using RN version > 0.62, you will need to disable flipper by doing the follownig:

• Comment the following lines from the Podfile:

...
#add_flipper_pods!
#  post_install do |installer|
#  flipper_post_install(installer)
#end
...

• Disable flipper init by removing the following lines from AppDelegate.m:

...
#if DEBUG
  #import <FlipperKit/FlipperClient.h>
  #import <FlipperKitLayoutPlugin/FlipperKitLayoutPlugin.h>
  #import <FlipperKitUserDefaultsPlugin/FKUserDefaultsPlugin.h>
  #import <FlipperKitNetworkPlugin/FlipperKitNetworkPlugin.h>
  #import <SKIOSNetworkPlugin/SKIOSNetworkAdapter.h>
  #import <FlipperKitReactPlugin/FlipperKitReactPlugin.h>

  static void InitializeFlipper(UIApplication *application) {
    FlipperClient *client = [FlipperClient sharedClient];
    SKDescriptorMapper *layoutDescriptorMapper = [[SKDescriptorMapper alloc] initWithDefaults];
    [client addPlugin:[[FlipperKitLayoutPlugin alloc] initWithRootNode:application withDescriptorMapper:layoutDescriptorMapper]];
    [client addPlugin:[[FKUserDefaultsPlugin alloc] initWithSuiteName:nil]];
    [client addPlugin:[FlipperKitReactPlugin new]];
    [client addPlugin:[[FlipperKitNetworkPlugin alloc] initWithNetworkAdapter:[SKIOSNetworkAdapter new]]];
    [client start];
  }
#endif
...
#if DEBUG
  InitializeFlipper(application);
#endif
...

3. The default React-Native root view controller is an instance of UIViewController. Spot.IM is using UINavigationController no navigate to native view controllers. To support native navigation wrap the app with a navigation controller.

Add the following to your code:

AppDelegate.h:

@property (nonatomic, strong) UINavigationController *navControll;

AppDelegate.m:

...
UIViewController *rootViewController = [UIViewController new];
self.navControll = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootViewController];
[self.navControll setNavigationBarHidden:YES]; // Hide nav bar if you don't use native navigation controller
rootViewController.view = rootView;
self.window.rootViewController = self.navControll;
...

Android

• Android SDK verison (API 19) and above.
• Your application will need a permission to use the Internet. Add the following line to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

1. Add the following lines to your project module's build.gradle file.

repositories {
   maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
   maven { url "http://giphy.bintray.com/giphy-sdk" }
}

2. Add the following lines to the app module's build.gradle file.

implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'
implementation 'com.github.SpotIM.spotim-android-sdk:spotim-sdk:1.2.0'

3. Apply Spot.IM gradle plugin There are two options to implement the plugin:

   1. Using the plugins DSL
   2. Using legacy plugin application

   Using the plugins DSL

   Add the following lines to the app module's build.gradle file.

   plugins {
     id "im.spot" version "1.0"
   }

   ⚠️ Note: Maku sure to apply the plugin after the com.android.application plugin.

   Using legacy plugin application

   1. Add the following lines to your project module's build.gradle file.

   buildscript {
     repositories {
       maven {
         url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
       }
     }
     dependencies {
       classpath "gradle.plugin.im.spot:spotim-gradle-plugin:1.0"
     }
   }

   2. Add the following lines to the app module's build.gradle file.

   defaultConfig {
       ...
       multiDexEnabled true
   }

   apply plugin: "im.spot"

Load PreConversation View in React-Native

<SpotIM
    spotId="<SPOT.IM_ID>"
    postId="<POST_ID>"
    url="<POST_URL>"
    title="<POST_TITLE>"
    subtitle="<POST_SUBTITLE>"
    thumbnailUrl="<POST_THUMBNAIL>"
    darkModeBackgroundColor="#<HEX_COLOR>"
    style={{flex: 1}}
/>

Listen to PreConversation View size changes

We make sure the container view is resized when the PreConversation View is filled with comments. You can also subscribe to SpotIMEventEmitter with startLoginFlow event to get PreConversation View height changes:

SpotIMEventEmitter.addListener('viewHeightDidChange', (event) => {
    this.setState({height: event['newHeight']});
})

Flows

Our SDK exposes one major flow to set up. The pre-conversation view is a view that displays a preview of 2-16 comments from the conversation, a text box to create new comments and a button to see all comments.

The Pre-conversation view should be displayed in your article view below the article.

When the user wants to see more comments we push a new ViewController/Activity which displays all comments from the conversation.

When clicking on the text box to create a new comments we bring the user to the creation screen. The users needs to be logged in inorder to post new comments, this is where the hosting app needs to integrate it's authentication system.

Authentication

To utilize SSO authentication, you can use your login UI by subscribing to startLoginFlow event:

const onStartLoginFlow = (event) => {
    ...
}
const subscription = SpotIMEventEmitter.addListener('startLoginFlow', onStartLoginFlow);

Authentication with SSO:

There are to types of SSO available: Generic SSO and SSO with JWT secret. Please contact your Spot.IM advisor to pick the best option for you.

Generic SSO

1. Authenticate a user with your backend - see Authentication above
2. Call startSSO function and get codeA
3. Send the codeA and all needed information to your backend system in order to get codeB
4. Call completeSSO with the codeB
5. Check success and error properties in the callback to ensure everything is ok

Example

// 2
SpotIMAPI.startSSO()
    .then(response => {
        console.log(response);
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error(error);
    })

// 4
SpotIMAPI.completeSSO("<CODE_B>")
    .then(response => {
        console.log(response);
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error(error);
    })

SSO with JWT secret

1. Authenticate a user with your backend
2. Call sso(JWTSecret) function with a user JWT secret
3. If there’s no error in the callback and response?.success is true, the authentication process finished successfully

Example

SpotIMAPI.sso("<SECRET_JWT>")
    .then(response => {
        console.log(response);
      })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error(error);
      })

Logout

Call SpotIm logout API whenever a user logs out of your system

Example

SpotIMAPI.logout();

Login status

An API to understand the status of the current SpotIm user. Guest - Means this is a guest unregistered user. You should call startSSO/sooWithJWT if your own login status is 'user is logged in' LoggedIn - Mean this is a registered user of SpotIm. You should avoid calling startSSO/sooWithJWT in this case. If you own status is 'user is logged out', you should SpotIm logout method

Example

SpotIMAPI.getUserLoginStatus()
    .then(status => {
        console.log(status);
      })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error(error);
      })