Overview

Overview of Overview in CometChat.

The CometChat React Native UI Kit is developed to keep developers in mind and aims to reduce development efforts significantly.

The UI Kit’s customizable UI components simplify the process of integrating text chat and voice/video calling features to your website or mobile application in a few minutes.

I want to checkout React Native Chat UI Kit.

Follow the steps mentioned in the README.md file.

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React Native Chat UI Kit

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I want to explore the sample app

Kindly, click on below button to download our React Native Chat Sample App.

React Native Sample App

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

1. A text editor. (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, Sublime Text, Atom, or VIM)
2. Node
3. npm
4. React-Native

Installing React Native UI Kit

Setup

1. Register on CometChat

   • To install React Native UI Kit, you need to first register on the CometChat Dashboard. Click here to Sign Up.

2. Get your application keys

   • Create a new app.
   • Head over to the QuickStart or API & Auth Keys section and note the App ID, Auth Key, and Region.

3. Add the CometChat dependency

CLI

npm install @cometchat-pro/react-native-chat@2.4.0 --save

Other required dependencies These packages help make the ui-kit smooth and functioning

react-native-sound
react-native-vector-icons 
react-native-elements 
react-native-fast-image
react-native-image-picker
react-native-document-picker
react-native-gesture-handler
react-native-reanimated
reanimated-bottom-sheet
react-native-video
react-native-video-controls
@react-navigation_bottom-tabs
@react-navigation_native
@react-navigation_stack
@react-native-picker_picker
react-native-async-storage_async-storage
@cometchat-pro_react-native-calls
rn-fetch-blob
react-native-autolink
react-native-screens
emoji-mart-native
react-native-keep-awake
react-native-safe-area-context
react-native-webview
react-native-swipe-list-view

Configure CometChat inside your app

• Initialize CometChat 🌟

The init() method initializes the settings required for CometChat. We suggest calling the init() method on app startup, preferably in the created() method of the Application class.

JavaScript

import {CometChat} from '@cometchat-pro/react-native-chat';

const appID = 'APP_ID';
const region = 'REGION';
const appSetting = new CometChat.AppSettingsBuilder()
  .subscribePresenceForAllUsers()
  .setRegion(region)
  .build();
CometChat.init(appID, appSetting).then(
  () => {
    console.log('Initialization completed successfully');
    // You can now call login function.
  },
  (error) => {
    console.log('Initialization failed with error:', error);
    // Check the reason for error and take appropriate action.
  },
);

Replace APP_ID and REGION with your CometChat App ID and Region in the above code

• Login your user 👤

This method takes UID and Auth Key as input parameters and returns the User object containing all the information of the logged-in user.

JavaScript

import {CometChat} from '@cometchat-pro/react-native-chat';

const authKey = 'AUTH_KEY';
const uid = 'cometchat-uid-1';

CometChat.login(uid, authKey).then(
  (user) => {
    console.log('Login Successful:', { user });
  },
  (error) => {
    console.log('Login failed with exception:', { error });
  },
);

Replace AUTH_KEY with your CometChat Auth Key in the above code.

We have set up 5 users for testing having UIDs: cometchat-uid-1, cometchat-uid-2, cometchat-uid-3, cometchat-uid-4, and cometchat-uid-5.

We have used uid cometchat-uid-1 as an example here. You can create a User from CometChat Dashboard as well.

Add UI Kit to your project

• Clone this repository.

CLI

https://github.com/cometchat-pro/cometchat-pro-react-native-ui-kit.git

• Copy the cometchat-pro-react-native-ui-kit folder to your source folder.
• Copy all the peer dependencies from package.json into your project’s package.json and install them using npm install

Launch CometChat

CometChatUI is an option to launch a fully functional chat application using the UI Kit. In CometChatUI all the UI Components are interlinked and work together to launch a fully functional chat on your website/application.

JavaScript

import React from 'react';
import {View} from 'react-native';
import {CometChatUI} from '../cometchat-pro-react-native-ui-kit';

export default function CometChatUIView() {
  return (
    <View style={{flex: 1}}>
      <CometChatUI />
    </View>
  );
}

Checkout our sample app

Visit our React Native App repo to run the React Native sample app.