react-native-matrix-sdk

react-native-matrix-sdk

This is a native react-native library for matrix.org.

Attention: This is still under development and not ready for being used, yet. Any contribution is welcomed (especially if you have iOS/Swift/Obj-C skills). The most recent versions are the *-alpha* versions, don't use any other!

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-matrix-sdk@1.0.0-alpha50 --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-matrix-sdk

Complete android setup

These steps need to be done, regardless of whether you linked already (this is not handled by linking)!

Step 1:

In your android/build.gradle you need to add the following repository:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ....
        maven {
            url "https://github.com/vector-im/jitsi_libre_maven/raw/master/releases"
        }
....

Step 2:

Add or change in your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml the allowBackup property to true:

...
    <application
      android:allowBackup="true"
...

Step 3:

As the matrix-android-sdk includes quite a lot classes you will very likely exceed the maximum allowed classes limit. The error looks something like this D8: Cannot fit requested classes in a single dex file (# methods: 74762 > 65536). Therefore, you need to enable "multidex-ing" for your android project. You can enable it by adding multiDexEnabled true to your android/app/build.gradle:

android {
    ....
    defaultConfig {
        ...
        multiDexEnabled true
    }

We are looking forward to make steps (1-2) obsolete in the future. There exists no shortcut/workaround for step 3.

Complete iOS Setup

Step 1: add pods

Add the following to your pods file

  pod 'react-native-matrix-sdk', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-matrix-sdk'
  pod 'AFNetworking', :modular_headers => true
  pod 'GZIP', :modular_headers => true
  pod 'OLMKit', :modular_headers => true
  pod 'Realm', :modular_headers => true
  pod 'libbase58', :modular_headers => true
  pod 'MatrixSDK/SwiftSupport', :git => 'https://github.com/hannojg/matrix-ios-sdk.git', :branch => 'develop'

Before you can run pod install you need to setup a Swift/Objective-C bridging header, as this library uses Swift code this is needed for RN to work.

Step 2: Create Swift/Obj-C bridging header:

1. Adding a new Swift file and a Brigde header:

1. File -> New -> File (click on your project first in project navigator)

2. Select Swift File

3. Confirm Create Bridging Header

1. Go to Build Settings and set Always Embed Swift Standard Libraries to YES

Step 3: install Pods

Now you can install all the pods:

cd ios/ && pod install && cd ..

Usage

For up to date API capabilities check the types file: https://github.com/hannojg/react-native-matrix-sdk/blob/master/types/index.d.ts Various use cases: (Attention: the following section isn't updated)

import MatrixSdk from 'react-native-matrix-sdk';

MatrixSdk.configure('https://your-matrix-homeserver.org');

try {
  // The credentials will be also saved to the MatrixSdk instance
  // but they can be returned anyways.
  const credentials = await MatrixSdk.login('test', 'test');
  
  // Session will return MXSessionAttributes
  const session = await MatrixSdk.startSession();
                                                                                       
  // Create room, invite person & send message
  const roomCreation = await MatrixSDK.createRoom('@alice:your-matrix-homeserver.org');
  const roomId = roomCreation.room_id;
  const successMessage = await MatrixSDK.sendMessageToRoom(roomId, 'text', {
    body: 'Hello Alice 🚀',
    msgtype: 'm.text',
  });
} catch (e) {
  console.error(e);
}

Listen to global new events

You can listen to any matrix event here you can imagine. Things like typing, new room invitations users leaving rooms etc. After the example you will find a list of all supported events:

  // Add listener for events
  const matrixGlobalEventEmitter = new NativeEventEmitter(MatrixSDK);
  // This will notify us about any member changes of all rooms of a user
  // this includes things like new invitations
  matrixGlobalEventEmitter.addListener('m.room.member', event => {
    // do something with the event
  });

  // We also need to start to listen to the events
  await MatrixSDK.listen();

  // When we are done listening we should unlisten
  MatrixSDK.unlisten();

Listening to new events in a room

For listening to events in a specific chat room, add a event listener to that room. Don't forget to unlisten when your component dismounts!

  // Add listener for events
  const matrixRoomTestEmitter = new NativeEventEmitter(MatrixSDK);
  // Only listen to future events, thus using 'matrix.room.forwards'
  // If you want to listen to past events use 'matrix.room.backwards'
  matrixRoomTestEmitter.addListener('matrix.room.forwards', event => {
    if (event.event_type === 'm.room.message') {
      console.log(event.content.body);
    }
  });

  await MatrixSDK.listenToRoom(roomId);
  console.log('Subscription to room has been made, Captain!');

Getting (past) messages/events of a room

const events = await MatrixSDK.loadMessagesInRoom(roomId, 50, true);
// Load further 50 messages
const furtherEvents = await MatrixSDK.loadMessagesInRoom(roomId, 50, false);

Software license

The use of this library is governed by a Creative Commons license. You can use, modify, copy, and distribute this edition as long as it’s for non-commercial use, you provide attribution, and share under a similar license. https://github.com/hannojg/react-native-matrix-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.md
You can't use this library in a commercial product.