react-native-exact-target

Introduction

react-native-exact-target provides bridging functionality to Salesforce Marketing Cloud's Exact Target SDK, aka the Journey Builder for iOS and Journey Builder for Android without all the fuss of messing with native code!

Version Compatibility

react-native-exact-target	React Native	JB4ASDK Android	JB4ASDK iPhone
0.0.x+	< 0.40	4.7.1	4.7.0.x
0.1.3+	> 0.40 and <= 0.46	4.7.1	4.7.0.x
0.2.0+	>= 0.47	4.7.1	4.7.0.x
0.3.x	>= 0.47	4.7.1	4.7.0.x

Note: Please ignore v0.1.0 - v0.1.2. Incorrect semver was followed here and these releases are therefore deprecated.

Important Note

This project is still in alpha stages and is not fit for production usage yet. Please stay tuned as we work towards our first RC.

If you're in a crunch and would like to use this, please feel free to fork or contribute.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-exact-target --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-exact-target

iOS (Continued)

1. Ensure that your app has been provisioned with access to the APN, as described by the JB4A-SDK instructions on iOS Provisioning

Android (Continued)

1. Open up android/build.gradle and modify the allprojects section to look like the following:

   allprojects {
       repositories {
           mavenLocal()
           jcenter()
           maven {
               // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
               url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
           }
           maven { url "http://salesforce-marketingcloud.github.io/JB4A-SDK-Android/repository" }
       }
   }
   

2. Add the following lines to your app's AndroidManifest.xml

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

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-exact-target and add RNExactTarget.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNExactTarget.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Ensure that your app has been provisioned with access to the APN, as described by the JB4A-SDK instructions on iOS Provisioning
5. Run your project (Cmd+R)

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.exacttarget.etpushsdk.reactnative.RNExactTargetPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNExactTargetPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-exact-target'
   project(':react-native-exact-target').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-exact-target/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-exact-target')
   

4. Open up android/build.gradle and modify the allprojects section to look like the following:

   allprojects {
       repositories {
           mavenLocal()
           jcenter()
           maven {
               // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
               url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
           }
           maven { url "http://salesforce-marketingcloud.github.io/JB4A-SDK-Android/repository" }
       }
   }
   

5. Add the following lines to your app's AndroidManifest.xml

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

Important Notes

Android

• The Android bridge locks the GMS and Play Services versions to 9.2.0, as that is a constraint of the version of the JB4A-SDK we are using (4.7.1)
  • We hopefully can sync up with the SFMC/ExactTarget folks to come up with a more elegant way to handle this, but please take note that this project may conflict with such things as react-native-maps or anything requiring GMS on Android

Forcing 9.2.4

In order to force your Android to a specific version of Android GMS to support ETPush SDK 4.7.1, please modify your android/build.gradle's allprojects to be as follows.

NOTE: This might break other 3rd party dependencies, such as react-native-maps or react-native-google-analytics-bridge that rely on more modern versions of Android GMS. We are working on making this more generic, please stay tuned.

allprojects {
  ...
  configurations.all {
          resolutionStrategy {
              eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
                  if (details.requested.group == 'com.google.android.gms') {
                      details.useVersion "9.2.0"
                  }
              }
          }
      }
}

Usage

Example App

An example RN app has been spun up in a separate repo. Please feel free to clone the repo and run the app to tinker with various settings.

Registering an App

• Please follow the instructions set forth by the Salesforce Marketing Cloud iOS Learning App.
  • Take note of the resulting App ID and Access Token

Initializing

Typically, you'll want to initialize ExactTarget on the componentDidMount of your App.js, like so:

Versions Prior to 0.3.x

import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';

componentDidMount() {
        ExactTarget
          .initializePushManager({
            appId: 'test-app-id-ios',
            accessToken: 'test-access-token-ios',
            enableAnalytics: false,
            enableLocationServices: false,
            enableProximityServices: false,
            enableCloudPages: false,
            enablePIAnalytics: false
          })
          .catch(error => {
            console.log('There has been an error');
            console.error(error);
          });
}

0.3.x and Future Releases

import { Platform } from 'react-native';
import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';


componentDidMount() {
        ExactTarget
          .initializePushManager({
            appId: 'test-app-id-ios',
            accessToken: 'test-access-token-ios',
            enableAnalytics: false,
            enableLocationServices: false,
            enableProximityServices: false,
            enableCloudPages: false,
            enablePIAnalytics: false
          })
          .then(() => {
            // This is to register the app on APNs, this bit isn't needed for GCM on Android
            if (Platform.OS === 'ios') {
                ExactTarget.registerForRemoteNotifications();
            }
          })
          .catch(error => {
            console.log('There has been an error');
            console.error(error);
          });
}

Checking if the SDK Was Initialized

There is a convenience function that is exposed to check if the SDK was registered successfully:

import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';

...

componentDidMount() {
    let isExactTargetInitialized = ExactTarget.isSDKInitialized();
}

Listening for Events

We expose an eventEmitter which a developer can use to listen in on various JB4A-SDK events. Note that eventEmitter will return null if the SDK was not properly initialized.

Please be sure to remove listeners on your componentWillUnmount.

Push Notifications

Note: This is still unstable and untested. Please use with caution.

import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';

...

componentDidMount() {
  this.pushNotificationListener = ExactTarget.eventEmitter.addListener(
    'ET:PUSH_NOTIFICATION_RECEIVED',
    (payload) => {
      // Handle the payload as you see fit
      console.log(payload);
    }
  );
}

componentWillUnmount() {
  if (this.pushNotificationListener) {
    this.pushNotificationListener.remove();
  }
}

Resetting Badge Count (iOS Only)

Note: This will no-op if the SDK was not properly initialized or if attempted from Android

import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';

...

ExactTarget.resetBadgeCount();

Automatically Display an Alert if a Push Notification is Received (iOS Only)

Note: This will no-op if the SDK was not properly initialized or if attempted from Android

import ExactTarget from 'react-native-exact-target';

...

ExactTarget.shouldDisplayAlertViewIfPushReceived(true);

Credits

This library was scaffolded by create-react-native-library