clevertap-cordova

CleverTap Cordova Plugin

👋 Introduction

The CleverTap Cordova Plugin for Mobile Customer Engagement and Analytics solutions.

For more information check out our website and documentation.

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✅ Supported Versions

• CleverTap Android SDK version 4.1.1
• CleverTap iOS SDK version 3.9.4

🚀 Install

To install CleverTap for Cordova, follow the 3 steps mentioned below:

1️⃣ Sign up

Sign up for a free account.

When you create your CleverTap account, you will also automatically get a -Test account. Use the -Test account for development and the main account for production.

Install the Plugin

Grab the Account ID and Token values from your CleverTap Dashboard -> Settings.

For Android Important

Starting with v2.0.0, the plugin uses FCM rather than GCM. To configure FCM, add your google-services.json to the root of your cordova project before you add the plugin.
The plugin uses an after plugin add hook script to configure your project for FCM.
If the google-services.json file is not present in your project when the script runs, FCM will not be configured properly and will not work.

Using Cordova

# ensure npm is installed: npm -g install npm
cordova plugin add https://github.com/CleverTap/clevertap-cordova.git --variable CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT ID" --variable CLEVERTAP_TOKEN="YOUR CELVERTAP ACCOUNT TOKEN"

Using Ionic

ionic cordova plugin add clevertap-cordova@latest --variable CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT ID" --variable CLEVERTAP_TOKEN="YOUR CELVERTAP ACCOUNT TOKEN"

For Ionic 5

npm install @ionic-native/clevertap --save 

• See the included Ionic 5 Example project for usage.

• Be sure to add CleverTap as a provider in your app module.

  constructor(platform: Platform, statusBar: StatusBar, splashScreen: SplashScreen, clevertap: CleverTap) {
    platform.ready().then(() => {
      // Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available.
      // Here you can do any higher level native things you might need.
      statusBar.styleDefault();
      splashScreen.hide();

      ...
      clevertap.setDebugLevel(2);
      clevertap.profileGetCleverTapID((id) => {console.log(id)});
      ...
    });
  }
}

Android

Check that the following is inside the <application></application> tags of your AndroidManifest.xml:

    <meta-data  
        android:name="CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID"  
        android:value="Your CleverTap Account ID"/>  
    <meta-data  
        android:name="CLEVERTAP_TOKEN"  
        android:value="Your CleverTap Account Token"/>

Replace "Your CleverTap Account ID" and "Your CleverTap Account Token" with actual values from your CleverTap Dashboard -> Settings.

Set the Lifecycle Callback

IMPORTANT!

Check the android:name property of the <application> tag of our AndroidManifest.xml:

    <application
        android:name="com.clevertap.android.sdk.Application">

Note: The above step is extremely important and enables CleverTap to track notification opens, display in-app notifications, track deep links, and other important user behaviour.

Add Permissions

Please ensure that you're requesting the following permissions for your app:

    <!-- Required to allow the app to send events -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <!-- Recommended so that we can be smart about when to send the data -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

Please see the example AndroidManifest.xml here.

Add Dependencies

Make sure your build.gradle file includes the play-services and support library dependencies:

    dependencies {
        implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar'  )
        debugCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "debug"))
        releaseCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "release"))
        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
        implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:+"
        implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.2.4"
        implementation 'androidx.core:core:1.3.0'
        implementation 'androidx.fragment:fragment:1.1.0'
        implementation "com.android.installreferrer:installreferrer:2.1" //Mandatory for v2.1.8 and above
        //MANDATORY for App Inbox
        implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0'
        implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.1.0'
        implementation 'androidx.viewpager:viewpager:1.0.0'
        implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.2.1'
        implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.11.0'
        //Optional ExoPlayer Libraries for Audio/Video Inbox Messages. Audio/Video messages will be dropped without these dependencies
        implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.11.5'
        implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls:2.11.5'
        implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-ui:2.11.5'
        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END 

Support AndroidX

To support AndroidX libraries, add the following to your config.xml file -

    <preference name="AndroidXEnabled" value="true" />

Also ensure that your app supports cordova-android@9.0.0 or above

2️⃣ Set up and register for push notifications and deep links

iOS

Set up push notifications for your app.

If you plan on using deep links, please register your custom url scheme as described here.

Call the following from your Javascript.

    CleverTap.registerPush();

Android

The FCMTokenListenerService of the CleverTap Android SDK registers push tokens automatically. No action is required from the Javascript side. Hence, Android does not require the CleverTap.registerPush() method.

Add your custom url scheme to the AndroidManifest.xml.

	 <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                <data android:scheme="clevertapstarter" />
     </intent-filter>

See example AndroidManifest.xml.

3️⃣ Integrate Javascript with the Plugin

After integrating, all calls to the CleverTap SDK should be made from your Javascript.

Start by adding the following listeners to your Javascript:

    document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady, false);
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProfileSync', this.onCleverTapProfileSync, false); // optional: to be notified of CleverTap user profile synchronization updates
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProfileDidInitialize', this.onCleverTapProfileDidInitialize, false); // optional, to be notified when the CleverTap user profile is initialized
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInAppNotificationDismissed', this.onCleverTapInAppNotificationDismissed, false); // optional, to be receive a callback with custom in-app notification click data
    document.addEventListener('onDeepLink', this.onDeepLink, false); // optional, register to receive deep links.
    document.addEventListener('onPushNotification', this.onPushNotification, false); // optional, register to receive push notification payloads.
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInboxDidInitialize', this.onCleverTapInboxDidInitialize, false); // optional, to check if CleverTap Inbox intialized
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInboxMessagesDidUpdate', this.onCleverTapInboxMessagesDidUpdate, false); // optional, to check if CleverTap Inbox Messages were updated
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInboxButtonClick', this.onCleverTapInboxButtonClick, false); // optional, to check if Inbox button was clicked with custom payload
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInAppButtonClick', this.onCleverTapInAppButtonClick, false); // optional, to check if InApp button was clicked with custom payload
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapFeatureFlagsDidUpdate', this.onCleverTapFeatureFlagsDidUpdate, false); // optional, to check if Feature Flags were updated
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProductConfigDidInitialize', this.onCleverTapProductConfigDidInitialize, false); // optional, to check if Product Config was initialized
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProductConfigDidFetch', this.onCleverTapProductConfigDidFetch, false); // optional, to check if Product Configs were updated
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProductConfigDidActivate', this.onCleverTapProductConfigDidActivate, false); // optional, to check if Product Configs were activated
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapDisplayUnitsLoaded', this.onCleverTapDisplayUnitsLoaded, false); // optional, to check if Native Display units were loaded


    // deep link handling  
    onDeepLink: function(e) {
        console.log(e.deeplink);  
    },

    // push notification data handling
    onPushNotification: function(e) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(e.notification));
    },
    onCleverTapInboxDidInitialize: function() {
        CleverTap.showInbox({"navBarTitle":"My App Inbox","tabs": ["tag1", "tag2"],"navBarColor":"#FF0000"});
    },
    
    onCleverTapInboxMessagesDidUpdate: function() {
        CleverTap.getInboxMessageUnreadCount(function(val) {console.log("Inbox unread message count"+val);})
        CleverTap.getInboxMessageCount(function(val) {console.log("Inbox read message count"+val);});
    },

    onCleverTapInAppButtonClick: function(e) {
        console.log("onCleverTapInAppButtonClick");
        console.log(e.customExtras);
    },

    onCleverTapInboxButtonClick: function(e) {
        console.log("onCleverTapInboxButtonClick");
        console.log(e.customExtras);
    },

    onCleverTapFeatureFlagsDidUpdate: function() {
        console.log("onCleverTapFeatureFlagsDidUpdate");
    },

    onCleverTapProductConfigDidInitialize: function() {
        console.log("onCleverTapProductConfigDidInitialize");
    },

    onCleverTapProductConfigDidFetch: function() {
        console.log("onCleverTapProductConfigDidFetch");
    },

    onCleverTapProductConfigDidActivate: function() {
        console.log("onCleverTapProductConfigDidActivate");
    },

    onCleverTapDisplayUnitsLoaded: function(e) {
        console.log("onCleverTapDisplayUnitsLoaded");
        console.log(e.units);
    },

Then:

• See the included Example Cordova project for usage.

• See the included Ionic Example project for usage.

⁉️ Questions?

If you have questions or concerns, you can reach out to the CleverTap support team from the CleverTap Dashboard.

TroubleShooting Guide: Please refer here if you are facing common integration issues.