Applozic Cordova Chat Plugin for Ionic and PhoneGap

Applozic powers real time messaging across any device, any platform & anywhere in the world. Integrate our simple SDK to engage your users with image, file, location sharing and audio/video conversations.

Signup at https://www.applozic.com/signup.html to get the App ID.

Note

This plugin is a wrapper around native code, so please make sure you test it on an emulator or a real device. This plugin wont work with browser or ionic lab. This plugin will only work on Android and iOS platforms. If you are looking for a javascript specific plugin you can explore our following repos :

Web Plugin - https://github.com/AppLozic/Applozic-Web-Plugin Phonegap Plugin - https://github.com/AppLozic/Applozic-PhoneGap-Chat-Plugin

Using

Install the plugin

$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/AppLozic/Applozic-Cordova-Ionic-PhoneGap-Chat-Plugin.git

Note: For Ionic, use

$ ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/AppLozic/Applozic-Cordova-Ionic-PhoneGap-Chat-Plugin.git

AndroidX supported plugin: If using latest version of ionic with androidX support, add the plugin as below:

 $ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-applozic

Android

Open /platforms/android/ folder in Android Studio. If you see gradle wrapper error then open gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties Change distributionUrl to point to 2.14.1-all distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip

iOS

1. Open /platforms/ios/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME.xcworkspace in Xcode.

Steps to integrate:

Login/Register User

    var alUser = {
            'userId' : userId,   //Replace it with the userId of the logged in user it has to be string
            'password' : password,  //Put password here
            'authenticationTypeId' : 1,
            'applicationId' : 'applozic-sample-app',  //replace "applozic-sample-app" with App ID from Applozic Dashboard
            'displayName' :'display name'   //Pass display name of user
        };

   applozic.login(alUser, function() {
       applozic.registerPushNotification(function() {}, function(){});
       applozic.launchChat(function() {}, function() {});
   }, function() {});

NOTE: Call it after the platform is ready, for example:

	platform.ready().then(() => {
  		 var alUser = {
            'userId' : 'debug3',   //Replace it with the userId of the logged in user
            'password' : 'debug3',  //Put password here
            'authenticationTypeId' : 1,
            'applicationId' : 'applozic-sample-app' //replace "applozic-sample-app" with App ID from Applozic Dashboard
        };

	   applozic.login(alUser, function() {
	        		applozic.launchChat(function() {}, function() {});
	        	}, function() {});
    });

Launch Chat

Main Chat screen

applozic.launchChat(function() {console.log("success");}, function () {console.log("error");});

Launch Chat with a specific User

applozic.launchChatWithUserId(userId, function() {console.log("success");}, function () {console.log("error");});

Launch Chat with specific Group

applozic.launchChatWithGroupId(groupId, function() {console.log("success");}, function () {console.log("error");});

Contact List

applozic.showAllRegisteredUsers(false, function() {}, function() {});
// create a contacts array and pass it to addContacts function. Below is the sample:               
var contacts = [
                    {'userId' : 'adarsh', 'displayName' : 'Adarsh Kumar'}, 
                    {'userId' : 'ranjeet', 'displayName' : 'Ranjeet Priyadarshi'}
                ];
applozic.addContacts(contacts, function() {}, function() {});

Android

Set the following in platforms/android/assets/applozic-settings.json properties file.

"registeredUserContactListCall": false, // set to true for displaying all registered users in the contact list
"startNewButton": true,

Push Notification Setup

Android

Goto /platforms/android/build.gradle Add the following under buildscript -> dependencies

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'

Add the following at the bottom of the file:

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

After adding, it will look something like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    
    // Switch the Android Gradle plugin version requirement depending on the
    // installed version of Gradle. This dependency is documented at
    // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/version-compatibility
    // and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8143
    dependencies {
       classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.1'
       classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

From login success callback, call applozic.registerPushNotification(function() {}, function(){});

For push notifications, you must have a Firebase account: Signup to https://console.firebase.google.com/ and create your application and generate push notification services file.

Download google-services.json from your Firebase Console and paste it to /platforms/android/ folder

Go to Applozic Dashboard, update the FCM/GCM Server Key from Firebase account to your Applozic application. "Edit Application -> Push Notification -> Android -> FCM/GCM Server Key"

iOS

Open AppDelegate.m file under /platforms/ios/YOUR_PROJECT/Classes/ Add code as mentioned in the following documentation: https://www.applozic.com/docs/ios-chat-sdk.html#step-4-push-notification-setup

Group

Create Group

  var group = {
         	'groupName': 'hey',
         	'groupMemberList': ['userid1', 'userid2', 'userid3'], // Pass list of user Ids in groupMemberList
         	'imageUrl': 'https://www.applozic.com/favicon.ico',
         	'type' : 1,    //'type' : 1, //(required) 1:private, 2:public, 5:broadcast,7:GroupofTwo
         	'metadata' : {
         		'key1' : 'value1',
         		'key2' : 'value2'
         	}
         };
  applozic.createGroup(group, function() {}, function() {});

Add Group Member

  var groupDetails = {
      'groupId': GROUP_ID,
      'clientGroupId': CLIENT_GROUP_ID, //use either groupId or clientGroupId
      'userId': USER_ID_TO_ADD
  }
  applozic.addGroupMember(groupDetails, function() {}, function() {});

Remove Group Member

  var groupDetails = {
      'groupId': GROUP_ID,
      'clientGroupId': CLIENT_GROUP_ID, //use either groupId or clientGroupId
      'userId': USER_ID_TO_ADD
  }
  applozic.removeGroupMember(groupDetails, function() {}, function() {});

Topic Based Chat

```
   var topicDetail = {
                    'title': 'Hyundai Electric i20', // Product title
                    'subtitle': 'electric car',      // Product subTitle or Product Id
                    'link': 'https://www.applozic.com/assets/resources/images/applozic_logo.gif',  // Product image link
                    'key1': 'Mileage: ',  // Small text anything like Qty (Optional)
                    'value1': '18 kmpl',  // Value of key1 ex-10 (number of quantity) Optional
                    'key2': 'Price: ',    // Small text anything like MRP (product price) (Optional)
                    'value2': '$50k'   // Value of key2 ex-$100  (Optional)
                };
                var conversation = {
                    'topicId': 'topic-11', //Unique topic id
                    'userId': 'demouser', //SET UserId for which you want to launch chat or conversation,
                   // 'groupId': groupKey,  // Set groupId for which you want to launch chat, use either userId or groupId
                    'topicDetail': JSON.stringify(topicDetail)
                };
                
                applozic.startTopicBasedChat(conversation, function() {}, function() {});
```

Logout

applozic.logout(function() {console.log("success");}, function () {console.log("error");});

Unread count

Total unreadcount

   applozic.getUnreadCount(function(response){
     var count = response;
    },
    function(error){alert(error)
   });

Unread count for user

   var userId = 'USER_ID'; //pass UserId with which unread count 
   applozic.getUnreadCountForUser(userId,function(response){
     var count = response;
    },
    function(error){alert(error)
   });

Unread count for group

   var groupId = 'GROUP_ID'; // pass groupId in which unreadcount required

  applozic.getUnreadCountForGroup(groupId,function(response){
       var count = response;
    },
     function(error){
    });

Install iOS or Android platform

cordova platform add ios
cordova platform add android

Run the code

cordova run 



 
 

Resolving Errors

Android support libraries/google versions conflict

If using multiple plugins that use support libraries or google dependencies, you may get support libraries or firebase version conflict issues in android. Use the below gradle script in your app/platform/android/build.gradle file's dependencies :

 dependencies {
	configurations.all {
 	 resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
    	 def requested = details.requested
    	 if (requested.group == 'com.google.firebase' || requested.group == 'com.google.android.gms') {
     	   details.useVersion '15.0.0'  //use a common firebase/google version here
    	  }

    	  if (requested.group == 'com.android.support' && requested.name != 'multidex') {
     		   details.useVersion '27.1.1'  //use a common support libraries version here
		   
  	           }
	   
             } 
	 }  
      }

iOS Swift version issue

Older versions of the plugin may give the build error "Swift version not specified". Open the YourProject.xcworkspace from yourApp/platforms/ios directory in your Xcode and build the project. Then click on the Kommunicate module and specify the SWIFT_VERSION.

More Info

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