React Native SDK

This guide demonstrates how to easily implement our SDK for chat.

Installation

The React Native SDK is available using npm.

To install it, run the following command in a terminal or command prompt:

npm install sinch-chat-react-native-sdk

Configuring the application

To set up your application to start sending and receiving messages, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Initialize the SDK as soon as the application starts.
2. Set the identity of the user.
3. Enable the chat functionality.

Initialize the SDK

To initialize the SDK, use the initialize method:

async initialize(): Promise<void>

Set Identity

We need to authorize the user next. To do that, call this method as early as possible to authorize the user:

async setIdentity(options: IdentityOptions): Promise<void>

interface IdentityOptions {
  region: string;
  clientID: string;
  projectID: string;
  configID: string;
  userID?: string;
  secret?: string;
}

After correct authorization, the token will be saved in local storage.

Set the configuration parameters

To connect your Sinch Chat client to your Sinch account, you need to set the following parameters:

Enabling and controlling the chat

You can enable and control the chat widget using the following method:

open

To display the widget.

async startChat(): Promise<void>

Next steps

After your client is set up, now you can configure the Sinch Chat channel in the Conversation API and start sending and receiving messages.