CometChat enables you to add voice, video and text chat to your Ionic app in minutes! That's not all, CometChat has whiteboard, writeboard, real-time translation and more.

For New Customers

If you would like to add CometChat to your app, please use CometChat Pro:

Step 1- Signup for CometChat Pro at https://app.cometchat.com

Step 2- View the CometChat Pro documentation at https://prodocs.cometchat.com

For Existing Customers

Quick Start

1. Download the sample Ionic project from this repository.

2. Open the home.ts file and replace the CometChat License Key and API Key values. These values can be found in the CometChat Admin Panel, under the Settings-> API Keys section.

3. Navigate to the project directory and add the Android and iOS platforms to your project using the below commands:

ionic cordova platform add android
ionic cordova platform add ios

4. Add the CometChat Ionic plugin from the NPM store using the below command:

ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-cccometchat

Please Note: As CometChat Ionic plugin makes use if Cocoapods, please make sure you setup Cocoapods in the /platforms/ios/ folder and call the pod update command once the Ionic plugin is added to your project.

5. Run the app using the below commands:

ionic cordova run android
ionic cordova run ios

For Push Notification

1. For push Notication in the Sample App , Kindly replace the the google-services.json and GoogleService-Info.plist respectively.Similarly, add the GoogleService-Info.plist file to YOUR_PROJECT/platforms/ios/ folder.
2. If you need to implement the Firebase Push Notication using the cordova-plugin-fcm in your project then kindly follow the below procedure :
   a. Add the CometChat Plugin into your App using below Command:
   ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-cccometchat.
   b. Add the FCM Plugin into your App using below Command:
   ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-fcm
   c. Replace the cordova-plugin-fcm folder of your project with the cordova-plugin-fcm folder of CometChat Sample project.
   d. Add the respective platfrom i.e Android and/or iOS using below Command:
   ionic cordova platform add android
ionic cordova platform add iOS
   
3. Sometimes there might be issues with ionic ios for pod installation, then you can navigate to the platform/ios directory of your project and run the update command :
   pod update
   

Please Note:

CometChat Ionic plugin only supports the Android and iOS platforms.

For more information regarding the CometChat Ionic SDK , please refer to the developer documentation.