Initial SDK Setup

This walkthrough shows how to add Storyly to your React Native application and show your first story in it.

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You can also check out the demo on GitHub

Storyly Demo for React Native

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Before you begin

This walkthrough contains sample instance information. However, if you want to work with your own content as well, please login into Storyly Dashboard and get your instance token.

The sample instance information for testing purposes;

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Installation

Storyly React Native package is available through npm. Source code is also available through the Storyly React Native Github page., contributions are more than welcomed 🙂

yarn add storyly-react-native

npm install --save storyly-react-native

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Tip

You can find the latest version’s release notes here.

Android Installation

Storyly SDK is developed using Kotlin language. So, there are some requirements to use Kotlin plugin in the project. Especially if you're encountering a Plugin with id 'kotlin-android' not found. error, this part fixes that.

You need to add kotlin-gradle-plugin to Android project's main Gradle file (android/build.gradle)

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.x.x")
    }
}

Moreover, Storyly SDK is developed using the AndroidX library package instead of the Support Library. So, you need to ensure that your project also supports these packages. You can do this check and add related lines if it's missing in the application's Android project's Gradle properties file (android/gradle.properties)

android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

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Warning

Storyly SDK targets Android API level 17 (Android 4.2, Jelly Bean) or higher.

iOS Installation

Storyly React Native contains platform-specific (native) code. Autolinking is needed to be done so that your project can discover and use this code.
If your application depends on react-native 0.60+, Autolinking is handled by react native as is mentioned in autolinking in react-native. Otherwise, react-native 0.60-, please refer for detailed explanation Linking Libraries in iOS for correct handling of autolinking.

// react-native 0.60-
react-native link storyly-react-native

After linking, you need to update Pods of the app;

// this should be executed inside 'ios' folder
pod update 

npx pod-install

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Warning

Storyly SDK targets iOS 11 or higher.

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Warning

Please note that CocoaPods version should be 1.9+

Import Storyly

Importing Storyly in your React Native application is quite easy:

import { Storyly } from 'storyly-react-native';

Initialize Storyly

Storyly extends Component so that you can use inherited functionality as it is. You can add the following lines inside any view of your app;

<Storyly
  style={{ width: '100%', height: 120 }}
  ref={ref => { this.storyly = ref }}
  storylyId=STORYLY_INSTANCE_TOKEN/>      

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Warning

storylyId: It's required for your app's correct initialization.

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Tip

Please do not forget to use your own token. You can get your token from the Storyly Dashboard -> Settings -> App Settings

Just hit the run. Now, you should be able to enjoy Storyly 🎉!

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Warning

If you can't see Storyly in your application, please check that your token is correct. For more details please check console logs.

Storyly Event Handling

This guide shows you how to handle Storyly events in your app. Storyly events provide insight on what is happening on a Storyly instance such as loading states, user redirections, user interaction.

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Before you begin

You need to have the working Storyly integration as described in Initial SDK Setup

Storyly Events

Storyly component notifies application when an event occurs. You can register the callback functions using the following code example. Moreover, you can chech the next sections to learn more about details of the events.

<Storyly
  ...
  onLoad={storyGroupList => console.log("[Storyly] onLoad")}
  onFail={errorMessage => console.log("[Storyly] onFail")}
  onStoryOpen={() => console.log("[Storyly] onStoryOpen")}
  onStoryClose={() => console.log("[Storyly] onStoryClose")}
  onPress={story => console.log("[Storyly] onPress")}
  onEvent={eventPayload => console.log("[Storyly] onEvent")}
  onUserInteracted={console.log("[Storyly] onStoryUserInteracted")}
/>

OnLoad Event

This event will let you know that Storyly has completed its network operations, and the story group list has just been shown to the user. In order to notified about this event, use the following example:

<Storyly
  ...
  onLoad={storyGroupList => {
    // console.log(storyGroupList.nativeEvent);
    console.log("[Storyly] onLoad");
  }}
/>

Check storyGroupList.nativeEvent member of function parameter:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "title": "...",
    "index": 1,
    "seen": true,
    "iconUrl": "...",
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "...",
        "index": 1,
        "seen": true,
        "actionUrl": null,
      }
    ]
  }
]

OnFail Event

This event will let you know that Storyly has completed its network operations and had a problem while fetching your stories. In this case, users will see four empty story group icons, which we call skeleton view. In order to notified about this event, use the following example:

<Storyly
  ...
  onFail={errorMessage => {
    console.log("[Storyly] onFail");
  }}
/>

Test Mode

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Before you begin

You need to have the working Storyly integration as described in Initial SDK Setup

This guide shows how to show test groups created in Storyly Dashboard to the specific devices. The default value of storylyTestMode is false, you need to explicitly define to set test devices.

<Storyly
  style={{ width: '100%', height: 120 }}
  ref={ref => { this.storyly = ref }}
  storylyId=STORYLY_INSTANCE_TOKEN
  storylyTestMode={true}
...
/>

Localization

This guide will walk you through the process of localizing all Storyly-related texts and content. You can deliver the appropriate content to each language/country pair by passing the locale parameter on the client side.

To set the locale, you need to use the IETF BCP 47 format as shown below:

<Storyly
  style={{ width: '100%', height: 120 }}
  ref={ref => { this.storyly = ref }}
  storylyId=STORYLY_INSTANCE_TOKEN
  storylyLocale = "tr-TR"
...
/>

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Tip

If you use the Translate option for Story Groups on the Storyly Dashboard, end user will see the content in their own locale.