CleverTap provides a Cordova Plugin that enables app developers to track, segment, and engage their users.

Supported Versions

Tested on Cordova 10.0.0

Installation Steps

To integrate CleverTap for Cordova:

Set up and register for Push notifications, if required.
Integrate your Javascript with the CleverTap Plugin.

Step 1: Install the Plugin

Grab the Account ID and Token values from your CleverTap Dashboard -> Settings.

For Android Important

Starting with v2.0.0, the plugin uses FCM rather than GCM. To configure FCM, add your google-services.json to the root of your Cordova project before you add the plugin.

The plugin uses an after plugin add hook script to configure your project for FCM.
If the google-services.json file is not present in your project when the script runs, FCM will not be configured properly and will not work.

Using Cordova

cordova plugin add https://github.com/CleverTap/clevertap-cordova.git --variable CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT ID" --variable CLEVERTAP_TOKEN="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT TOKEN"

Using Ionic

ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/CleverTap/clevertap-cordova.git --variable CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT ID" --variable CLEVERTAP_TOKEN="YOUR CELVERTAP ACCOUNT TOKEN"

Using PhoneGap Build

Starting with v2.0.0, the plugin drops official support for PhoneGap Build.

This is because PhoneGap Build does not support install hooks and a hook is required to configure FCM.

It might be possible by forking this plugin and replacing the placeholder google-services.json in src/android with yours, and then hard coding your google app id and API key in plugin.xml, but you're on your own there.

When using the plugin with PhoneGap Build:

Add the following to your www/config.xml file:

<preference name="android-build-tool" value="gradle" />

<gap:plugin name="clevertap-cordova" source="npm">
    <param name="CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID" value="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT ID" />
    <param name="CLEVERTAP_TOKEN" value="YOUR CLEVERTAP ACCOUNT TOKEN" />
    <param name="GCM_PROJECT_NUMBER" value="YOUR GCM PROJECT NUMBER" /> // for v1.2.5 and lower of the plugin
</gap:plugin>

Extremely Important For PhoneGap Build Android projects, add CleverTap.notifyDeviceReady(); to your onDeviceReady callback in www/js/index.js:

onDeviceReady: function() {
    app.receivedEvent('deviceready');
    CleverTap.notifyDeviceReady();
    ...
},

iOS

Check your .plist file:

Android

Check that the following is inside the <application></application> tags of your AndroidManifest.xml:

<meta-data  
        android:name="CLEVERTAP_ACCOUNT_ID"  
        android:value="Your CleverTap Account ID"/>  
    <meta-data  
        android:name="CLEVERTAP_TOKEN"  
        android:value="Your CleverTap Account Token"/>

Replace "Your CleverTap Account ID" and "Your CleverTap Account Token" with actual values from your CleverTap Dashboard -> Settings.

Set the Lifecycle Callback

IMPORTANT!

Check the android:name property of the <application> tag of our AndroidManifest.xml:

<application
        android:name="com.clevertap.android.sdk.Application">

Note: The above step is extremely important and enables CleverTap to track notification opens, display in-app notifications, track deep links, and other important user behaviour.

Add Permissions

Please ensure that you're requesting the following permissions for your app:

<!-- Required to allow the app to send events -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <!-- Recommended so that we can be smart about when to send the data -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

Please see the example AndroidManifest.xml here.

Add Dependencies

Make sure your build.gradle file includes the play-services and support library dependencies:

dependencies {
        implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar'  )
        debugimplementation(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "debug"))
        releaseimplementation(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "release"))
        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
        implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:+"
        implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.3.3"
        implementation "com.android.support:support-v4:+"
         //Mandatory for v2.1.8 and above
        implementation "com.android.installreferrer:installreferrer:1.0"
        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END

2. Set Up and Register for Push Notifications and Deep Links

iOS

Set up push notifications for your app.

If you plan on using deep links, please register your custom URL scheme as described here.

Call the following from your Javascript.

CleverTap.registerPush();

Android

Add your custom URL scheme to the AndroidManifest.xml.

<intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                <data android:scheme="clevertapstarter" />
     </intent-filter>

See example AndroidManifest.xml.

3. Integrate Javascript with the Plugin

After integrating, all calls to the CleverTap SDK should be made from your Javascript.

Start by adding the following listeners to your Javascript:

document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady, false);
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProfileSync', this.onCleverTapProfileSync, false); // optional: to be notified of CleverTap user profile synchronization updates 
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapProfileDidInitialize', this.onCleverTapProfileDidInitialize, false); // optional, to be notified when the CleverTap user profile is initialized
    document.addEventListener('onCleverTapInAppNotificationDismissed', this.onCleverTapInAppNotificationDismissed, false); // optional, to be receive a callback with custom in-app notification click data
    document.addEventListener('onDeepLink', this.onDeepLink, false); // optional, register to receive deep links.
    document.addEventListener('onPushNotification', this.onPushNotification, false); // optional, register to receive push notification payloads.


    // deep link handling  
    onDeepLink: function(e) {
        console.log(e.deeplink);  
    },  

    // push notification data handling
    onPushNotification: function(e) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(e.notification));
    },

Step 4: Example Projects

To see how to use the CleverTap SDK in your app, please see these example projects:
Starter Cordova project
Starter Ionic project