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# @nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging

```cli
npm install @nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging
```

## What does it do

Firebase In-App Messaging helps you to engage your apps active users by sending them targeted, contextual messages that encourage them to use key app features. For example, you could send an in-app message to get users to subscribe, watch a video, complete a level, or buy an item. You can customize messages as cards, banners, modals, or images, and set up triggers so that they appear exactly when they'd benefit your users most.

## Contents

- [Intro](#intro)
- [Set up your app for Firebase](#set-up-your-app-for-firebase)
- [Add the Firebase In-App Messaging SDK to your app](#add-the-firebase-in-app-messaging-sdk-to-your-app)
- [Firebase In-App Messaging limitations](#firebase-in-app-messaging-limitations)
- [Create message campaigns](#create-message-campaigns)
- [Control messages display](#control-messages-display)
- [Trigger contextual messages](#trigger-contextual-messages)
- [API](#api)
- [InAppMessaging class](#inappmessaging-class)
- [app](#app)
- [isAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled](#isautomaticdatacollectionenabled)
- [isMessagesDisplaySuppressed](#ismessagesdisplaysuppressed)
- [triggerEvent()](#triggerevent)
- [License](#license)
## Intro

This plugin allows you to use the [Firebase In-App Messaging SDK](https://firebase.google.com/docs/in-app-messaging) in your NativeScript app.

[![image](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5MRKpvKV2pg/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MRKpvKV2pg)

## Set up your app for Firebase

## Usage

Most of the set up occurs on [Firebase Console](https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/_/inappmessaging) in the In-App Messaging tab. You can create campaigns and customize elements such as Image, Banner, Modal & Cards to appear on predefined events (e.g. purchase). This involves no code for the developer to implement. Any published campaigns from the Firebase Console are automatically handled and displayed on your user's device.
You need to set up your app for Firebase before you can use the Firebase in-app messaging. To set up and initialize Firebase for your NativeScript app, follow the instructions on the documentation of the [@nativescript/firebase-core](../firebase-core/) plugin.

This module provides a JavaScript API to allow greater control of the displaying of these messages.

## Add the Firebase In-App Messaging SDK to your app

## Limitations
To add the Firebase In-App Messaging SDK to your app follow these steps:

1. Install the `@nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging` plugin by running the following command in the root directory of your project.

According to github issue https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/4768 Firebase In-App Messaging allows only 1 campaign per day on app foreground or app launch. This limit is to prevent you from accidentally overwhelming your users with non-contextually appropriate messages. However, if you use the contextual triggers (for example: Analytics event or programmatically triggered in-app-messaging campaigns), there is no daily rate limit.
```cli
npm install @nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging
```
2. Add the SDK by importing the `@nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging` module in your app's main file (e.g. `app.ts` or `main.ts`).
```ts
import '@nativescript/firebase-in-app-messaging';
```

## Firebase In-App Messaging limitations

## Displaying Messages
According to a github issue https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/4768, Firebase In-App Messaging allows only 1 campaign per day on app foreground or app launch. This limit is to prevent you from accidentally overwhelming your users with non-contextually appropriate messages. However, if you use contextual triggers (for example Analytics events or programmatically triggered in-app-messaging campaigns), there is no daily rate limit.

The isMessagesDisplaySuppressed property allows you to control when messages can/cannot be displayed. Below illustrates a use case for controlling the flow of messages:
## Create message campaigns

To create a message campaign, go to the `In-App Messaging` page in the [Firebase Console](https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/_/inappmessaging) and follow the instructions there. You can create campaigns and customize elements such as Image, Banner, Modal & Cards to appear on predefined events (e.g. purchase).

> **Note:** The suppressed state is not persisted between restarts, so ensure it is called as early as possible.
Any published campaigns from the Firebase Console are automatically handled and displayed on your user's device.

## Control messages display

To control whether to display messages or not, set the `isMessagesDisplaySuppressed` property of the `InAppMessaging` instance to `true` or `false`. The `InAppMessaging` instance is returneb calling the `inAppMessaging()` on the FirebaseApp instance. By default, `isMessagesDisplaySuppressed` is set to `false` which means messages will be displayed.

```ts
import { firebase } from '@nativescript/firebase-core';
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// Allow user to receive messages now setup is complete
firebase().inAppMessaging().isMessagesDisplaySuppressed = false;
}
```
> **Note:** The suppressed state is not persisted between restarts, so ensure it is called as early as possible ideally in the app bootstrapping file(`app.ts` or `main.ts`).

## Trigger contextual messages

To trigger contextual messages, call the `triggerEvent()` method of the `InAppMessaging` instance with the event name as a parameter. This triggers the display of any messages that are configured on the Firebase Console.
```ts
import { firebase } from '@nativescript/firebase-core';

firebase().inAppMessaging().triggerEvent('purchase');
```

## API

### InAppMessaging class

#### app
```ts
inAppMessagingApp = firebase().inAppMessaging().app;
```

The `app` property returns the `FirebaseApp` instance that the current `InAppMessaging` instance is associated with.


---
#### isAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled
```ts
firebase().inAppMessaging().isAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled = true;
```

For the description of this property, see [isAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled](https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/inappmessaging/FirebaseInAppMessaging#isAutomaticDataCollectionEnabled()) on the Firebase documentation.

---
#### isMessagesDisplaySuppressed
```ts
firebase().inAppMessaging().isMessagesDisplaySuppressed = true;
// or
firebase().inAppMessaging().isMessagesDisplaySuppressed = false;
```

For the description of this property, see [areMessagesSuppressed](https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/inappmessaging/FirebaseInAppMessaging#areMessagesSuppressed()) on the Firebase documentation.

---
#### triggerEvent()
```ts
firebase().inAppMessaging().triggerEvent(eventId);
```
| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `eventId` | `string` | The name of the event to trigger.

For the description of this method, see [triggerEvent](https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/android/com/google/firebase/inappmessaging/FirebaseInAppMessaging#triggerEvent(java.lang.String)) on the Firebase documentation.

---


## License

Apache License Version 2.0