Installation

Overview

Kommunicate provides open source live chat sdk in capacitor which works with both Ionic apps. Kommunicate lets you add real time live chat, in-app messaging and bot integration in your mobile applications and website for customer support.

Signup at https://dashboard.kommunicate.io/signup to get the Application ID.

Installation

Add the plugin as below

npm install capacitor-plugin-kommunicate

Since this plugin uses native modules for android and ios, add them as below. Ignore if the android and iOS modules exist in your project

npx cap add android
npx cap add ios

Android

Open the android module in android studio as below

npx cap open android

Register the plugin in your android/app/java/<App-Package>/MainActivity.java file as below:

 this.init(savedInstanceState, new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {{
      // Additional plugins you've installed go here
      // Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
      add(KommunicateCapacitorPlugin.class);   //append this line
    }});

iOS

Navigate to <Your-Project>/ios/App directory and run the below command

pod install

Open the iOS project in xcode as below

npx cap open iOS

Import the plugin

Import the plugin in the file where you would like to call the kommunicate functions as below

import 'capacitor-plugin-kommunicate';
import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
const { KommunicateCapacitorPlugin } = Plugins;

Now start calling the functions from KommunicateCapacitorPlugin.

Note: After any code changes in your project's .ts or .js files, run the below commands

  npm run build
  npx cap sync

For Android and iOS run the project fron Android Studio and Xcode respectively. For web, use the command ionic serve.

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