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CometChat SDK v1.6 now offers support for app development in Cordova. You can use Ready UI APIs using our Cordova plugin.

Prerequisite

You must have installed Cordova on your system

Latest Android SDK

You will find the Cordova SDK plugin inside the “cordova” directory of the SDK you download.

Initial setup

Create cordova project as follows:

cordova create <DIRECTORY_NAME> <APP BUNDLE ID> <APP NAME>
e.g cordova create testapp com.testapp.app HelloWorld

Add Android platform in the created project as follows:

cd testapp
cordova platform add android

To install the SDK plugin in your app type the following command in your command prompt:

cordova plugin add <PATH TO SDK_PLUGIN FOLDER>

Now you have to modify the AndroidManifest.xml file to add the permission which can be located under /platforms/android

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />

Now open build.gradle file which is present at same location and add following code
multiDexEnabled true in section of defaultConfig {
Add following line in just above the defaultConfig { section

dexOptions {
        incremental true
        javaMaxHeapSize "2048M"
}

Add following lines in dependencies { section:

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.2.0'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3'
compile 'com.pnikosis:materialish-progress:1.5'
compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.17'
compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
compile 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.8.1'
compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.3.2'
compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.3'
compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-tasks:1.4.0'
compile 'com.commit451:PhotoView:1.2.4'
compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
compile 'com.splitwise:tokenautocomplete:1.3.3'

Add following lines after at the end of android { section

packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/dependencies.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/LGPL2.1'
}

Include Readyui.js in your index.html file to access Ready UI functionality in your Cordova app

Now your android app is ready to build.

Ready UI offers you the following apis:

Set API KEY
Pass the url where you have installed CometChat by using the setApiKey() function.
e.g

Readyui.setApiKey("API-Key");

Login to CometChat
Login to CometChat by passing the username and password to the function login().
e.g

Readyui.login("John","passw0rd");

Launch Chat in your app
Launch Chat app inside your app by using the launchCometChat() function.
e.g

Readyui.launchCometChat();

Launch Chat window
If you wish to load the chat window of any specific user instead of opening the entire chat app you can use the chatWithMe() function for this purpose. Pass the user id of the user with whom you wish to chat.
e.g

Readyui.chatWithMe("2")

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