Mobile Messaging SDK plugin for Cordova

Mobile Messaging SDK is designed and developed to easily enable push notification channel in your mobile application. In almost no time of implementation you get push notification in your application and access to the features of Infobip IP Messaging Platform. The document describes library integration steps for your Cordova project.

• Requirements
• Quick start guide
• Initialization configuration

Requirements

• cordova 12.0.0 (sudo npm install -g cordova)
• npm (version 8.13.x or higher)
• node (version 16.10.0 or higher)

For iOS project:

• Xcode 15
• Carthage >= 0.39.0 (brew install carthage)
• Minimum deployment target 12.0
• [email protected]
• Ruby (2.7.x - 3.1.x)

For Android project:

• Android Studio
• Supported API Levels: 22 ( Android 5.1 - Lollipop) - 34 (Android 14.0)
• [email protected]

For Huawei:

• Android Studio
• Installed AppGallery with HMS Core at device
• Supported API Levels: 22 ( Android 5.1 - Lollipop) - 31 (Android 12.0)

Quick start guide

This guide is designed to get you up and running with Mobile Messaging SDK plugin for Cordova:

1. Make sure to setup application at Infobip portal, if you haven't already.

2. Add MobileMessaging plugin to your project, run in terminal:

   $ cordova plugin add com-infobip-plugins-mobilemessaging --save

   You can add typings if you are using TypeScript in yours project

   npm install --save-dev @types/mobile-messaging-cordova

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   ionic cordova plugin add com-infobip-plugins-mobilemessaging --save
   npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/mobile-messaging --save

3. Configure platforms

   1. iOS: Integrate Notification Service Extension into your app in order to obtain:
      • more accurate processing of messages and delivery stats
      • support of rich notifications on the lock screen
   2. Android:
      1. Get the Firebase configuration file (google-services.json) as described in Firebase documentation and put it to the root application folder.
      2. Add following to your config.xml

            <platform name="android">
               <resource-file src="google-services.json" target="app/google-services.json" />
               <preference name="GradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled" value="true"/>
               ...
            </platform>

   Notice (when targeting Android 13):

   Starting from Android 13, Google requires to ask user for notification permission. Follow this guide to make a permission request.

4. Configure Huawei build

   1. Configure Huawei application

   2. Change plaform/android/build.gradle

          
          buildscript {
              repositories {
                  mavenCentral()
                  google()
                  maven { url 'https://developer.huawei.com/repo/' } // Added for Huawei support
              }
          
              dependencies {
                  ...
                  classpath 'com.huawei.agconnect:agcp:1.6.0.300' // Added for Huawei support
              }
          }
      
          allprojects {
              repositories {
                  mavenCentral()
                  google()
                  maven {url 'https://developer.huawei.com/repo/'} // Added for Huawei support
              }
              ...
          }
      

   3. Change plaform/android/app/build.gradle

          apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
          apply plugin: 'com.huawei.agconnect' // Added for Huawei support
          
          dependencies {
                 implementation 'com.huawei.hms:push:6.3.0.302' // Added for Huawei support
          }
      

   4. Sign your app to provide config for Generated Signing Certificate Fingerprint at previous step. You can change plaform/android/app/build.gradle or write sign config to build.json

         android {
      
             signingConfigs {
                 release {
                     storeFile file(<path to *.jks file>)
                     storePassword "<password>"
                     keyAlias "<alias>"
                     keyPassword "<password>"
                 }
             }
             buildTypes {
                 release {
                     signingConfig signingConfigs.release
                 }
                 debug {
                     signingConfig signingConfigs.release
                 }
             }
      
             ...
      

   5. Download agconnect-services.json from AppGallery Connect and copy it to platforms/android/app.

      a. Find your App from the list and click the link under Android App in the Mobile phone column.

      b. Go to Develop > Overview.

      c. In the App information area, Click agconnect-services.json to download the configuration file.

   6. Add Huawei App ID via plugin variable in config.xml :

         <plugin name="com-infobip-plugins-mobilemessaging" spec="...">
             <variable name="HUAWEI_SENDER_ID" value="Huawei App ID" />
         </plugin>

      You can take this value from agconnect-services.json.

   7. Remove, if following was added to config.xml

         <platform name="android">
             <resource-file src="google-services.json" target="app/google-services.json" />
             <preference name="GradlePluginGoogleServicesEnabled" value="true"/>
             ...
         </platform>

   8. Run cordova build android --hms to make build for HMS.

      Note that if you are developing / testing FCM and HMS at the same device then better to remove cache for installed app, remove app and after that install build with other push cloud.

5. Add code to your project to initialize the library after deviceready event with configuration options and library event listener:

   onDeviceReady: function () {
       ...
       MobileMessaging.init({
               applicationCode: '<your_application_code>',
               geofencingEnabled: '<true/false>',
               ios: {
                   notificationTypes: ['alert', 'badge', 'sound']
               },
               android: {
                   notificationIcon: <String; a resource name for a status bar icon (without extension), located in '/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/mipmap'>,
                   multipleNotifications: <Boolean; set to 'true' to enable multiple notifications>,
                   notificationAccentColor: <String; set to hex color value in format '#RRGGBB' or '#AARRGGBB'>
               }
           },
           function(error) {
               console.log('Init error: ' + error.description);
           }
       );
   
       MobileMessaging.register('messageReceived', 
           function(message) {
               console.log('Message Received: ' + message.body);
           }
       );
   
       ...
   }

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   Add this code to app.module.ts::

   import { MobileMessaging } from '@ionic-native/mobile-messaging/ngx';
   
   ...
   
   @NgModule({
    ...
   
     providers: [
       ...
       MobileMessaging
       ...
     ]
     ...
   })
   export class AppModule { }

   Usage sample:

   import {Message, MobileMessaging, UserData} from '@ionic-native/mobile-messaging/ngx';
   
   ...
   
   @Component({
     selector: 'app-root',
     templateUrl: 'app.component.html',
     styleUrls: ['app.component.scss']
   })
   export class AppComponent {
     constructor(
       private platform: Platform,
       private splashScreen: SplashScreen,
       private statusBar: StatusBar,
       private mobileMessaging: MobileMessaging
     ) {
       this.initializeApp();
     }
   
   ...
   
     this.mobileMessaging.init({
       applicationCode: '<your_application_code>',
       geofencingEnabled: '<true/false>',
       ios: {
         notificationTypes: ['alert', 'badge', 'sound']
       },
       android: {
         notificationIcon: <String; a resource name for a status bar icon (without extension), located in '/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/mipmap'>,
         multipleNotifications: <Boolean; set to 'true' to enable multiple notifications>,
         notificationAccentColor: <String; set to hex color value in format '#RRGGBB' or '#AARRGGBB'>
      }}, (err) => {
        ...
      });
    
      this.mobileMessaging.register('messageReceived', function (message: any) {
        ...
      });

Initialization configuration

MobileMessaging.init({
        applicationCode: <String; Infobip Application Code from the Customer Portal obtained in step 2>,
        ios: {
            notificationTypes: <Array; values: 'alert', 'badge', 'sound'; notification types to indicate how the app should alert user when push message arrives>
        },
        android: { // optional
            notificationIcon: <String; a resource name for a status bar icon (without extension), located in '/platforms/android/app/src/main/res/mipmap'>,
            multipleNotifications: <Boolean; set to 'true' to enable multiple notifications>,
            notificationAccentColor: <String; set to hex color value in format '#RRGGBB' or '#AARRGGBB'>
        },
        geofencingEnabled: <Boolean; set to 'true' to enable geofencing inside the library>, // optional
        messageStorage: <Object; message storage implementation>, // optional
        defaultMessageStorage: <Boolean; set to 'true' to enable default message storage implementation>, // optional
        notificationCategories: [ // optional
           {
               identifier: <String; a unique category string identifier>,
               actions: [
                   {
                       identifier: <String; a unique action identifier>,
                       title: <String; an action title, represents a notification action button label>,
                       foreground: <Boolean; to bring the app to foreground or leave it in background state (or not)>,
                       textInputPlaceholder: <String; custom input field placeholder>,
                       moRequired: <Boolean; to trigger MO message sending (or not)>,
                                               
                       // iOS only
                       authenticationRequired: <Boolean; to require device to be unlocked before performing (or not)>,
                       destructive: <Boolean; to be marked as destructive (or not)>,
                       textInputActionButtonTitle: <String; custom label for a sending button>,
                       
                       // Android only
                       icon:
                        <String; a resource name for a special action icon>
                   }
               ]   
           }
        ],
        privacySettings: { // optional
            carrierInfoSendingDisabled: <Boolean; defines if MM SDK should send carrier information to the server; false by default>,
            systemInfoSendingDisabled: <Boolean; defines if MM SDK should send system information to the server; false by default>,
            userDataPersistingDisabled: <Boolean; defines if MM SDK should persist User Data locally. Persisting user data locally gives you quick access to the data and eliminates a need to implement the persistent storage yourself; false by default>
        }
    },
    function(error) {
        console.log('Init error: ' + error.description);
    }
);

More details on SDK features and FAQ you can find on Wiki

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