Getting Started

The Airship React Native modules allow a developer to integrate push notification services with React Native apps targeting both Android and iOS. These modules are designed to be cross-platform, and applications making use of them can leverage the same code on both platforms.

Resources

• Sample
• Airship React Native API Docs
• Airship Accengage React Native API Docs
• Airship HMS React Native API Docs
• Airship Location React Native API Docs
• Github Repo

Requirements

• React Native >= 0.60.0
• React Native cli >= 2.0.1

iOS

• Xcode 13+
• minimum deployment target iOS 11+

Android

• minSdkVersion 21+
• compileSdkVersion 31+
• Gradle Plugin version 3.0.0+
• Java 8

Installation

Standard React Native Setup

Install the plugin using yarn or npm:

Android

1. Compile and Target SDK Versions: Urban Airship now requires compileSdk version 31+ or higher.

Please update the build.gradle file:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 31

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 31

        // ...
    }
}

2. Java 8 Source Compatibility:

Urban Airship now requires Java 8 language features across all SDK modules.

Please update Android Gradle Plugin to version 3.0.0 or higher and change the source and target compatibility for each module that uses Airship SDKs:

android {
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}

Modules using Kotlin will also need to set the target version of the generated JVM bytecode:

tasks.withType(org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile).configureEach  {
    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}

3. Download the Android Firebase configuration file google-services.json from the application’s Firebase console into the root directory at android/app/google-services.json.

If your react-native application does not have an associated app in the Firebase console, follow the FCM setup instructions to set one up.

iOS

1. Install pods

2. Open your apps project in the generated .xcworkspace file, add the following capabilities:

• Push Notification
• Background Modes > Remote Notifications

3. To take advantage of notification attachments, such as images, animated gifs, and video, you will need to create a notification service extension.

   Follow the steps in the iOS Notification Service Extension Guide.

Expo Setup

Apps using Expo’s managed workflows can use the airship-expo-plugin to configure the project.

Configure the plugin

Add the plugin to the app.json with the app’s config:

  "plugins":[
    [
      "airship-expo-plugin",
      {
        "android":{
          "icon":"./assets/ic_notification.png"
        },
        "ios":{
          "mode": "development"
        }
      }
    ]
  ]

Android Config:

• icon: Local path to an image to use as the icon for push notifications. 96x96 all-white png with transparency. The name of the icon will be the resource name.

iOS Config:

• mode: The APNS entitlement. Either development or production

Calling TakeOff

TakeOff should be called in a standard application at the beginning of the lifecycle. Once takeOff is called the config will be stored and applied for future app inits. If takeOff is called again with a different config, the new config will not be applied until the next app init.

  import { UrbanAirship } from 'urbanairship-react-native';

  UrbanAirship.takeOff({
    default: {
      appSecret: "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_APP_SECRET",
      appKey: "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_APP_KEY"
    },
    site: "us", // use "eu" for EU cloud projects
    urlAllowList: ["*"],
    android: {
      notificationConfig: {
        icon: "ic_notification",
        accentColor: "#00ff00"
      }
    }
  });

URL Allow List

The URL allow list controls which URLs the Airship SDK is able to act on. The SDK divides up usages of URLs into 3 different config options:

• urlAllowListScopeOpenUrl: Only URLs allowed for this scope can be opened from an action, displayed in landing page, displayed in an HTML in-app message, or displayed as media in an In-App Automation. Defaults to any Airship-originated URLs and YouTube URLs.
• urlAllowListScopeJavaScriptInterface: These URLs are checked before the Airship JavaScript interface is injected into the webview. Defaults to any Airship-originated URLs
• urlAllowList: Both scopes are applied to these URLs.

<pattern> := '*' | <scheme>'://'<host>/<path> | <scheme>'://'<host> | <scheme>':/'<path> | <scheme>':///'<path>
<scheme> := <any char combination, '*' are treated as wild cards>
<host> := '*' | '*.'<any char combination except '/' and '*'> | <any char combination except '/' and '*'>
<path> := <any char combination, '*' are treated as wild cards>

To accept any URL within the SDK, set the urlAllowList to ["*"].

Send Your First Push Notification

At this point in the guide, if you followed all the steps above you should be ready to send a test push notification to verify everything is set up properly.

Before sending a push, you must enable user notifications. The module does not enable user notifications by default in order to avoid prompting the user for permissions. But for a testing purposes, you can enable user notifications as soon as the application is ready. You may also want to set default foreground presentation options to display the notification in the foreground.

import {
  UrbanAirship,
  UACustomEvent,
} from 'urbanairship-react-native'


class SampleApp extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    UrbanAirship.setUserNotificationsEnabled(true)
  }

  ...
}