iOS SDK

Things to keep handy before starting your integration with Apxor

Please have the following handy before beginning the integration:

• Application identifier generated on the Apxor dashboard for your app (Read more on how to fetch the application identifier from Apxor dashboard)

• App Bundle Id : Every app has a unique application ID that looks like com.example.myapp. This id uniquely identifies the app on the device and also on the app store. (Know more about bundle ids here)

• The list of events to setup triggers and track goals, user properties that allows to personalize messages and to target better. (Read more on how you can setup here)

Note

If you are already using a separate analytics class where you are sending events to different platforms from a single place it is much faster to use our tracking guide to complete event logging to setup triggers and track goals.

In case you are logging events to third parties after each interaction, please use our Third party API guide to migrate all the events that you are sending to one of the supported third parties as listed in the guide.

Getting started with Apxor iOS

Apxor provides you easy to use plugins for your Actions. They are:

Plugin Name	Description	Example
Apxor-Core	The Core Plugin is responsible for the basic event tracking	How many of my users have clicked on the cart icon after showing them a nudge Sample Event : 'ViewCart'
APXSurveyPlugin	This Plugin helps you create contextual surveys to capture your users' feedback, ratings, etc.	An NPS survey that would ask the user to rate the app experience on a scale of 1-10.
APXRTAPlugin	This Plugin helps you create real time actions.	Show a tooltip on the cart icon with messaging "Tap here to view items"
APXWYSIWYGPlugin	The WYSIWYG Plugin allows you to preview your configured actions onto your device in real time	Casting your mobile screen to the dashboard and selecting the hamburger icon
APXPushPlugin	The Push Plugin allows you to track uninstalls and real-time serve/pause the nudges, while the app is opened	Show a campaign to users who land on the home screen and add an item to the cart.

Check here for the latest release notes.

Adding Apxor SDK to your project

• Install CocoaPods, if you don't already have it. CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. It has over 95 thousand libraries and is used in over 3 million apps. CocoaPods can help you scale your projects elegantly. If you don't want to use CocoaPods, you can install ApxorSDK manually.

• If this is your first pod, run pod init. Add the following to the corresponding target in your Podfile and run pod install.

use_frameworks!
pod 'Apxor-Core', '2.10.35'
pod 'Apxor-CE', '1.05.24'
pod 'Apxor-Push', '1.01.01'
pod 'Apxor-RTA', '1.09.39'
pod 'Apxor-WYSIWYG', '1.02.71'
pod 'Apxor-Survey', '1.04.17'

Initialize Apxor iOS SDK

Auto initialize SDK (Recommended)

• To Auto initialize SDK (Recommended), add the following inside your application plist file.

• Open your application's Info.plist as source code.

• Copy paste the below piece of code, to create an entry for ApxorSDK.

<key>Apxor</key>
<dict>
    <key>Core</key>
    <string>YOUR_APP_ID</string>
    <key>APXSurveyPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXRTAPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXPushPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXWYSIWYGPlugin</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

Manually initialize SDK (Not Recommended)

• To manually initialize SDK, call ApxorSDK.initialize method in your Application class

//...
#import "ApxorSDK/ApxorSDK.h"

@implementation AppDelegate

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication*)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions
{
    [ApxorSDK initializeApxorWithID:@"<YOUR_APP_ID>"];
    // ... your code
}

• And open your application's Info.plist as source code.

• Copy paste the below piece of code, to create an entry for ApxorSDK.

<key>Apxor</key>
<dict>
    <key>APXSurveyPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXRTAPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXPushPlugin</key>
    <true/>
    <key>APXWYSIWYGPlugin</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

Note

To get your app ID, please email us at [e-mail]

Configuring Test Device

• First, you need to configure your app to ensure there is a URL Scheme with your application's bundle identifier as the value.

• If your app already has a URL Scheme with your application's bundle identifier as the value, you can skip this step.

Configure URL Scheme

• To configure URL scheme, goto your project settings, select Targets. Click on the Info tab.

• Select the URL Types, and click on the + button to add a new URL Scheme.

• Add a new URL Scheme with your bundle identifier as the value.

• Your bundle identifer will be in the format, com.xxxx.xxxx

• Use the image below for reference.

Note

Make sure the URL scheme has the value of your bundle identifier that was provided in the dashboard while registering with us. Also, the app must have same bundle identifier.

Handling the deep link

Using AppDelegate

• You'd need to enable Apxor to handle Apxor specific deeplinks.

• In your application's AppDelegate file, in the function application(_:open:options:), add the following code at the beginning,

// ObjC
NSString *urlStr = url.absoluteString;
if ([urlStr containsString:@"add-test-device"]) {
  [ApxorSDK handleDeeplink:url];
}

// Swift
/*
  Apxor's code to handle deeplinks
  */
let urlStr = url.absoluteString
if (urlStr.contains("add-test-device")) {
    ApxorSDK.handleDeeplink(url)
}

• This will ensure the Apxor specific deep links are handle by our SDK.

Using SceneDelegate

• You'd need to enable Apxor to handle Apxor specific deeplinks.

• In your application's SceneDelegate file, add the following code at the beginning,

// ObjC
- (void)scene:(UIScene *)scene openURLContexts:(NSSet<UIOpenURLContext *> *)URLContexts {
  for(UIOpenURLContext *x in URLContexts) {
    NSURL *url = x.URL;
    if([[url absoluteString] containsString:@"add-test-device"])
    {
      [ApxorSDK handleDeeplink:url];
    }
    break;
  }
}

// Swift
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, openURLContexts URLContexts: Set<UIOpenURLContext>) {
  let url = URLContexts.first?.url
  let urlStr = url?.absoluteString
  if (urlStr!.contains("add-test-device")) {
    ApxorSDK.handleDeeplink(url!)
  }
}

Configuring Push Notifications

• To use the push notifications feature, make sure the following lines exist in your application plist file under Apxor section.

<key>APXPushPlugin</key>
<true/>

• To configure iOS Push notification via Apxor dashboard, you'd need to upload APNs Auth Key file along with it's ID (key ID), your Team ID, and your application's Bundle ID.

• The APNs Auth Key is the best way to configure pushes, as you don't need to regenerate a certificate every year and also, this key can be used to configure Push notifications to sever of your applications (under the same apple developer account)

• Things required to configure iOS Push notification:

• Auth Key file

  • Key ID (usuallly the name of the Auth Key file)

  • Team ID (the 10 digit alphanumeric key)

  • Your app’s bundle ID (in the format com.abc.xyz)

  • See here on how to get these, Push notifications

• Once you get those details, add the below code in your application's AppDelegate file in the application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken function.

import APXPushPlugin

let tokenParts = deviceToken.map { data in String(format: "%02.2hhx", data) }
let token = tokenParts.joined()
print("Device Token: \(token)")
APXPushPlugin.setPushDeviceToken(token)

[APXPushPlugin setPushDeviceToken:token];

• The token can be passed in either the NSData or NSString format

• If you haven't already used the code to Ask User for notifications permission, add the following function in your AppDelegate file.

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

  // your existing code ...

  registerForPushNotifications()

  // ...
}

func registerForPushNotifications() {
  UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
    .requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound, .badge]) { [weak self] granted, error in
      print("Permission granted: \(granted)")
      guard granted else { return }
      self?.getNotificationSettings()
    }
}

func getNotificationSettings() {
  UNUserNotificationCenter.current().getNotificationSettings { settings in
    print("Notification settings: \(settings)")
    guard settings.authorizationStatus == .authorized else { return }
    DispatchQueue.main.async {
      UIApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications()
    }
  }
}

Embed Slot

Note

For using Apxor Embedded Cards the versions of the following plugins should be greater than or equal the ones mentioned below

Core: 2.10.26

RTA: 1.09.26

CE: 1.05.16

WYSIWYG: 1.02.67

For using Apxor's immersive template embedded cards, this step is necessary.

In all areas of the app where you may want to show an in-line widget, insert the following code in the view controller:

// Swift

let EmbedCard = APXRTAPlugin.initEmbedCard(withId: <Tag>)!

// you can add it in a UIStackView (recommended)
let stackView = UIStackView()
stackView.addArrangedSubview(EmbedCard)

// add your other existing views if any
stackView.addArrangedSubview(existingView1)
.
.

// if you want to add it in a UIView
let sampleView = UIView()
sampleView.addSubview(EmbedCard)

// add constraints (optional)
EmbedCard.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

EmbedCard.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.topAnchor).isActive = true
EmbedCard.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
EmbedCard.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
EmbedCard.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.trailingAnchor).isActive = true

// Objective-C

APXEmbedCard *embedCard = [APXRTAPlugin initEmbedCardWithId: <Tag>];

// you can add it in a UIStackView (recommended)
UIStackView *stackView = [[UIStackView alloc] init];
[stackView addArrangedSubview:embedCard];

// add your other existing views if any
[stackView addArrangedSubview:existingView1];
.
.

// if you want to add it in a UIView
UIView *sampleView = [[UIView alloc] init];
[sampleView addSubview:embedCard];

// add constraints (optional)
embedCard.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;

[NSLayoutConstraint activateConstraints:@[
    [embedCard.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.topAnchor],
    [embedCard.leadingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.leadingAnchor],
    [embedCard.bottomAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.bottomAnchor],
    [embedCard.trailingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.trailingAnchor]
]];

Rename <Tag> to any unique ID (any positive Integer). Ensure that you keep the ID unique across different IDs and across different Embed Card instances.

Story Slot

Note

For using Apxor Stories the versions of the following plugins should be greater than or equal the ones mentioned below

Core: 2.10.26

RTA: 1.09.26

CE: 1.05.16

WYSIWYG: 1.02.67

In all areas of the app where you may want to show an in-line widget, insert the following code in the view controller:

// Swift

let StoryWidget = APXRTAPlugin.initStories(withId: <Tag>)!

// you can add it in a UIStackView (recommended)
let stackView = UIStackView()
stackView.addArrangedSubview(StoryWidget)

// add your other existing views if any
stackView.addArrangedSubview(existingView1)
.
.

// if you want to add it in a UIView
let sampleView = UIView()
sampleView.addSubview(StoryWidget)

// add constraints (optional)
StoryWidget.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

StoryWidget.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.topAnchor).isActive = true
StoryWidget.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
StoryWidget.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
StoryWidget.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: sampleView.trailingAnchor).isActive = true

// Objective-C

APXStoryGroup *storyWidget = [APXRTAPlugin initStoriesWithId:<Tag>];

// you can add it in a UIStackView (recommended)
UIStackView *stackView = [[UIStackView alloc] init];
[stackView addArrangedSubview:storyWidget];

// add your other existing views if any
[stackView addArrangedSubview:existingView1];
.
.

// if you want to add it in a UIView
UIView *sampleView = [[UIView alloc] init];
[sampleView addSubview:storyWidget];

// add constraints (optional)
storyWidget.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;

[NSLayoutConstraint activateConstraints:@[
    [storyWidget.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.topAnchor],
    [storyWidget.leadingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.leadingAnchor],
    [storyWidget.bottomAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.bottomAnchor],
    [storyWidget.trailingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:sampleView.trailingAnchor]
]];

Rename <Tag> to any unique ID (any positive Integer). Ensure that you keep the ID unique across different IDs and across different Stories instances.

Ensuring Apxor SDK is initialized successfully

• Lookout for the following log

Click here for guide to log user properties, events and event properties.