Orchextra Cordova Plugin for iOS and Android

A cordova plugin that gives you access to iOS and Android Orchextra platform from your hybrid app.

Android: https://github.com/Orchextra/orchextra-android-sdk

iOS: https://github.com/Orchextra/orchextra-ios-sdk

Getting started

Start by creating a project in Orchextra dashboard, if you haven't done it yet. Go to "Setting" > "SDK Configuration" to get the api key and api secret, you will need these values to start Orchextra SDK.

Installation

cordova plugin add https://github.com/Orchextra/orchextra-cordova-sdk-plugin

Supported Platforms

• iOS 7 or later
• Android Jelly Bean (v. 18) or later. But can be integrated in Android Gingerbread (v. 10)

Methods

• init: Orchextra initialization.
• start: Start listening to events.
• stop: Stop listening to events.
• bindUser: (Optional) Set a local representation of a user persisted to the Orchextra Database to help to create a good user segmentation.
• openScanner : Launch scanner.

init

Orchextra initialization.

Params
Configuration Dictionary {apiKey: string, apiSecret: string, logLevel: string(optional)}
CustomSchemeCallback returns a string with the Custom URL Scheme - Example: "myApp://news/international"

- Log Level Options:

Log Level
Debug information (Recommended for Developers to get debug information about Orchextra)	"debug"
Only Error logs	"error"
Warning and error logs	"warning"
All logs (Displays all logs requests and responses from network, debug, errors and warnings)	"all"

Example:

orchextra.init({apiKey: 'myApikey', apiSecret: 'myApiSecret', logLevel: 'all'}, customSchemeCallback)

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start

Start listening to events.

Params
successCallback
errorCallback

Example:

orchextra.start(successCallback, errorCallback)

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stop

Stop listening to events.

Params
successCallback
errorCallback

Example:

orchextra.stop()

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bindUser

Set a local representation of a user persisted to the Orchextra Database to help to create a good user segmentation. This method is optional and could be set up at any time..

Param
{ crmId : string, birthday : string(optional), gender : string(optional) , tags : array[strings](optional) }

Example { crmId : 'sergio24', birthday : '1985/12/21', gender : 'M', tags : ['Visa', 'Master Card'] }

orchextra.bindUser(UserDictionary)

- Birthday String Format: aaaa/mm/dd

Example Ej: '1985/10/21'

- Gender String:

Gender
Male	"M"
Female	"F"

- Tags Strings:

Example ['Visa', 'Master Card']

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openScanner

Launch scanner.

orchextra.openScanner()

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iOS Geolocation permission description

You can provide a description of "why the app wants to use location services" in the xcode project info.plist by modifying the value of the following keys and providing a string with the reason.

• NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
• NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription

iOS Camera permission description

You can also provide a description of "why the app wants to use the camera" in the xcode project info.plist by modifying the value of the following key and providing a string with the reason.

• NSCameraUsageDescription