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Cordova AppsFlyer plugin for Android and iOS.

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🛠 In order for us to provide optimal support, we would kindly ask you to submit any issues to [email protected]

When submitting an issue please specify your AppsFlyer sign-up (account) email , your app ID , reproduction steps, code snippets, logs, and any additional relevant information.


Please check out our brand new Capacitor plugin.

This plugin is not 100% compatible for use with Capacitor! To use this plugin with Capacitor, you have to make changes and customize the code by yourself. (Feel free to fork the project)


❗️Important

  • Cordova AppsFlyer plugin version 4.4.0 and higher are meant to be used with [email protected] and up

    For lower versions of cordova-android please use plugin version 4.3.3 available @ https://github.com/AppsFlyerSDK/cordova-plugin-appsflyer-sdk/tree/4.3.3
  • From version 6.1.10 the plugin uses cocoapods(NOT StaticLib) in order to support iOS app-kids Strict mode.

    You can read more here
  • From version 6.10.2 the plugin requires using the implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.6.20' in Android.
  • From version 6.14.3 the plugin requires Target version 12 and higher in iOS.
  • From version 6.15.11 the plugin requires adding the value '/usr/lib/swift' to Build Settings 'RunPath Search Paths' key in iOS.

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  • iOS AppsFlyerSDK v6.15.3
  • Android AppsFlyerSDK v6.15.2

iOS platform: The plugin requires adding the value '/usr/lib/swift' to Build Settings 'RunPath Search Paths' key in iOS, Otherwise there might be some compilation errors.

Android platform: In order to receive data regarding install-referrer from AppGallery now, there is a need to add implementation to the gradle file.
following the instructions in this link.
please follow also these Cordova doc guidlines here.

We have renamed the following APIs:

Old API New API
trackEvent logEvent
stopTracking Stop
trackCrossPromotionImpression logCrossPromotionImpression
trackAndOpenStore logCrossPromotionAndOpenStore
setDeviceTrackingDisabled anonymizeUser
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-appsflyer-sdk  

To install cordova manually check out the doc here.

NOTE: for Ionic installation see this section

⚠️ Adding AD_ID permission for Android ⚠️

In v6.8.0 of the AppsFlyer SDK, we added the normal permission com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID to the SDK's AndroidManifest, to allow the SDK to collect the Android Advertising ID on apps targeting API 33. If your app is targeting children, you need to revoke this permission to comply with Google's Data policy. You can read more about it here.

Starting from version 6.1.10 iOS SDK comes in two variants: Strict mode and Regular mode. Please read more here
Change to Strict mode

After you installed the AppsFlyer plugin, go to the ios folder inside platform folder:

cd platform/ios  

open the Podfile and replace pod 'AppsFlyerFramework', '6.1.1' with pod 'AppsFlyerFramework/Strict', '6.1.1'

Run pod install inside the ios folder

inside xcode, go to your target and define Preprocessor Macro AFSDK_NO_IDFA=1
Add Preprocessor macro

  • You can add the Preprocessor Macro using our Hooks.

Change to Regular mode

Go to the ios folder inside platform folder:

cd platform/ios  

open the Podfile and replace pod 'AppsFlyerFramework/Strict', '6.1.1' with pod 'AppsFlyerFramework', '6.1.1'

Run pod install inside the ios folder

inside xcode, go to your target and remove the Preprocessor Macro AFSDK_NO_IDFA=1

Great installation and setup guides can be viewed here.

Set your App_ID (iOS only), Dev_Key and enable AppsFlyer to detect installations, sessions (app opens) and updates. > This is the minimum requirement to start tracking your app installs and is already implemented in this plugin. You MUST modify this call and provide:

devKey - Your application devKey provided by AppsFlyer.

appId - For iOS only. Your iTunes Application ID.

waitForATTUserAuthorization - For iOS14 only. Time for the sdk to wait before launch.

Add the following lines to your code to be able to initialize tracking with your own AppsFlyer dev key:

document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() {  
  
  window.plugins.appsFlyer.initSdk({  
  devKey: 'K2***************99', // your AppsFlyer devKey  
  isDebug: false,  
  appId: '41*****44', // your ios appID  
  waitForATTUserAuthorization: 10, //time for the sdk to wait before launch - IOS 14 ONLY!  
 }, (result) => {  console.log(result);  
 }, (error) => {  console.error(error);  
 } );  }, false);  

See the full API available for this plugin.

Check out the demo for this project here.

There is 1 demo project called demoC, run npm run setup_c in the appsflyer-cordova-plugin folder and then open the ios project in Xcode to see implementation for IOS 14.

Check out our Sample-App Let's cook! here if you want to implement our SDK inside React-Cordova app

NOTICE! In AppsFlyer Cordova plugin version 6.x.x we replaced the word track with log from all our api but Ionic-Navite Appsflyer plugin still uses track

So the latest version that can work with Ionic-Native for now is 5.4.30

Using the window object directly

Install the cordova plugin:

$ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-appsflyer-sdk  

In your main ts file, declare a window variable:

declare var window;  

Now you can use the AppsFlyer plugin directly from cordova:

import {Component} from '@angular/core';  
import {Platform} from '@ionic/angular';  
  
declare var window;  
...  
export class HomePage {  
  constructor(public platform: Platform) {  
  this.platform.ready().then(() => {  
  window.plugins.appsFlyer.initSdk(options, success, error);  
 }); }}  

Check out the full API for more information