react-native-zendesk-ichat

Getting started

Follow the instructions to install the SDK for iOS and Android.

$ npm install react-native-zendesk-ichat --save or $ yarn add react-native-zendesk-ichat

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-zendesk-ichat (Only versions less than 0.60)

Manual installation

iOS

Using CocoaPods (Best Approach)

1. Go to ios ➜ pod install.
2. Open up ios/[...]/AppDelegate.m

• Add #import <ZDCChat/ZDCChat.h>;
• Add [ZDCChat initializeWithAccountKey:@"key"]; before the return YES; in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions method;

Android

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

• Add import com.rnzendeskchat.RNZendeskChatPackage; and com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add static RNZendeskChatModule rnZendeskChatModule; before the onCreate method;
• Add ReactApplicationContext reactContext = new ReactApplicationContext(this); rnZendeskChatModule = new RNZendeskChatModule(reactContext); rnZendeskChatModule.init("key") to the onCreate method;
• (Only versions less than 0.60) Add new RNZendeskChatPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Insert the following lines inside the allprojects repositories block in android/build.gradle:

     maven { url 'https://zendesk.artifactoryonline.com/zendesk/repo' }

3. (Only versions less than 0.60) Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

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

4. (Only versions less than 0.60) Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-zendesk-ichat')

Usage

import RNZendeskChat from 'react-native-zendesk-ichat';

ZendeskChat.startChat({
            name: 'someName',
            email: 'someEmail',
            phone: 'somePhone',
            tags: ['someTag1', 'someTag2'],
            department: 'someDepartment'
          })