React Native

React Native is an open-source framework that allows developers to create native applications for iOS and Android. If you are looking to integrate Voximplant to React Web framework instead, see this article.

With React Native 0.60+ you can rely on the CLI autolink feature that links the module while building the app. In case you have React Native <= 0.59, perform manual installation:

1. Make sure you have a React Native project created with react-native init ProjectName

2. Run the following command in the direcroy where the package.json file is located:

npm install react-native-voximplant@latest --save

3. Open or create the ios/Podfile file and add the following dependencies:

pod ‘react-native-voximplant’, path: ‘../node_modules/react-native-voximplant’

4. Run the following command:

pod install from <your_project>/ios/

5. Start XCode and open generated .xcworkspace. Check that there are no *.xcodeproj files in the project (see the Libraries section). If there are any, please remove them. Since React dependencies are added via Podfile, double integration of its modules may lead to incorrect behavior of the application.

6. Run your project (Cmd+R).

With React Native 0.60+ you can rely on the CLI autolink feature that links the module while building the app. In case you have React Native <= 0.59, run the following command:

react-native link react-native-voximplant

Manual installation for Android

In case something went wrong, you can proceed with manual installation:

1. Make sure you have a React Native project created with react-native init ProjectName

2. Run the following command in the direcroy where the package.json file is located:

npm install react-native-voximplant@latest --save

3. Install Java 8 support. To do this, open the android/app/build.gradle file and add the following lines to the ‘android’ section:

compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}

4. Open the android/build.gradle file and update the Android plugin for gradle:

dependencies {
    // use the latest available version
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.3'
}

5. Open the android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file and edit the distributionUrl to gradle-4.4-all.zip:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

6. Run the following command:

react-native link

First, you need to import the Voximplant package, and get a client instance via the getInstance method:

Note that React Native SDK supports promises, i.e., you can handle any type of login independently since promises provide you an async/await construction. To connect to the Voximplant cloud, use the connect method, and to log in to your user, use the login method.

See the following code example as reference:

Now you have your application and SDK set up and successfully connected to the Voximplant cloud. To start implementing desired functionality, such as calls, conferences, messages, and more, go to the Guides section of our documentation and pick the features you need.

Implement the desired functionality by following step-by-step Guides or download and test our latest React native SDK here: