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In-App Notifications

The CleverTap SDK allows you to show In-App notifications to your users and it provides the capability to send in-app messages with images, GIFs, video, and audio. You can design in-app notifications right from the dashboard, without writing a single line of code. There is no code required for this feature. You can also do A/B testing on your in-apps.

Note: not applicable inside App Extensions and watchOS apps.

InApp Notification Button onClick Callbacks

iOS SDK v3.7.1 and above supports callback on the click of InApp Notification Buttons by returning a Map of Key-Value pairs. To use this, make sure your class implements the CleverTapInAppNotificationDelegate and use the following method to handle user-selected actions from InApp notifications:

- (void)inAppNotificationButtonTappedWithCustomExtras:(NSDictionary *)customExtras {
     NSLog(@"inAppNotificationButtonTappedWithCustomExtras:%@", customExtras);
  ...
}

func inAppNotificationButtonTapped(withCustomExtras customExtras: [AnyHashable : Any]!) {
      print("In-App Button Tapped with custom extras:", customExtras ?? "");
  }

Control In-App Notifications

For CleverTap iOS SDK 3.10.0 and above, you can suspend, discard, or resume in-app notifications.

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Note

The CleverTap SDK automatically resumes displaying the in-app notification after every new session.

You can control the in-app notifications in the following ways:

Suspend

The suspendInAppNotifications method suspends and saves in-app notifications until the resumeInAppNotifications method is called for the current session.

CleverTap.sharedInstance()?.suspendInAppNotifications()

#import <CleverTapSDK/CleverTap+InAppNotifications.h>
[[CleverTap sharedInstance] suspendInAppNotifications];

Discard

The discardInAppNotifications method discards in-app notifications until the resumeInAppNotifications method is called for the current session.

CleverTap.sharedInstance()?.discardInAppNotifications()

#import <CleverTapSDK/CleverTap+InAppNotifications.h>
[[CleverTap sharedInstance] discardInAppNotifications];

Resume

The resumeInAppNotifications method resumes displaying in-app notifications.
If you call this method after the discardInAppNotifications() method, it resumes the in-app notifications for events raised after the call is performed.

However, if you call the resumeInAppNotifications method after the suspendInAppNotifications() method, then it displays all queued in-app notifications and also resumes in-app notifications for events raised after the call is performed.

CleverTap.sharedInstance()?.resumeInAppNotifications()

#import <CleverTapSDK/CleverTap+InAppNotifications.h>
[[CleverTap sharedInstance] resumeInAppNotifications];

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Note

The showInAppNotificationIfAny method will be deprecated soon. Use the resumeInAppNotifications method to manually display the pending in-app notifications.

Custom Handling Deeplink

For CleverTap iOS SDK 3.10.0 and above, you can implement custom handling for URLs of in-app notification CTAs, push notifications, and app Inbox messages.

Check that your class conforms to the CleverTapURLDelegate protocol by first calling setURLDelegate. Use the following protocol method shouldHandleCleverTap(_ : forChannel:) to handle URLs received from channels such as in-app notification CTAs, push notifications, and app Inbox messages:

// Set the URL Delegate
CleverTap.sharedInstance()?.setUrlDelegate(self)


 // CleverTapURLDelegate method
public func shouldHandleCleverTap(_ url: URL?, for channel: CleverTapChannel) -> Bool {  
    print("Handling URL: \(url!) for channel: \(channel)") 
    return true 
}

#import <CleverTapSDK/CleverTapURLDelegate.h>

// Set the URL Delegate
[[CleverTap sharedInstance]setUrlDelegate:self];

// CleverTapURLDelegate method 
- (BOOL)shouldHandleCleverTapURL:(NSURL *)url forChannel:(CleverTapChannel)channel {
    NSLog(@"Handling URL: \(%@) for channel: \(%d)", url, channel);
    return YES;
}

Javascript support in In-App Notifications

CleverTap iOS SDK v3.5.0 and above supports embedding Javascript code inside Custom In-Apps. To make sure your Javascript code works on the app, while creating the InApp campaign, select the checkbox for Enabling javascript during the In-App campaign creation

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Custom HTML Templates in In-App Notification

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Include JavaScript in In-App Notifications

All methods are explained with examples below:

//Recording a User Event called Product Viewed in JS enabled custom In-Apps
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface             
 CleverTap.pushEvent("Product Viewed");          
}

//Recording a User Event called Product Viewed with properties, in JS enabled custom In-Apps
var props = {foo: 'xyz', lang: 'French'};
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface             
 CleverTap.pushEvent("Product Viewed",JSON.stringify(props));
           }

//Updating profile properties of the User in JS enabled custom In-Apps
var props = {foo: 'xyz', lang: 'French'};
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface             
 CleverTap.pushProfile(JSON.stringify(props));          
}

//Adding user property for the User in JS enabled custom In-Apps
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.addMultiValueForKey('membership', 'gold');
}

//Adding multiple user properties for the User in JS enabled custom In-Apps
var cars = ['Saab', 'Volvo', 'BMW', 'Kia'];
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.addMultiValuesForKey('Cars', JSON.stringify(cars));
}

//removing a user property for a specific key in JS enabled custom In-Apps
if (window.CleverTap) {
// Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.removeMultiValueForKey(‘Cars’, 'Saab');
}

//Removing multiple user properties for a specific key in JS enabled custom In-Apps
var cars = ['BMW', 'Kia'];
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.removeMultiValuesForKey('Cars', JSON.stringify(cars));
}

//Removing a user property by specifying a key in JS enabled custom In-Apps
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.removeValueForKey('Cars');
}

//Setting a user property by specifying the key in JS enabled custom In-Apps

var values = ['Mercedes','Bentley']
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.setMultiValueForKey('Cars', JSON.stringify(values));
}


// Increment user property value by specifying the key in JS enabled custom In-Apps

if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.incrementValue('Cars',2);
}

// Decrement user property value by specifying the key in JS enabled custom In-Apps

if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.decrementValue('Cars',2)
}

//Calling onUserLogin 

var props = {Identity: '12434', Email: '[email protected]'};
if (window.CleverTap) {
  // Call iOS interface 
CleverTap.onUserLogin(JSON.stringify(props));
}

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Inline Media

To add inline media support in custom HTML for in-app notifications, add the key playsinline with value as 1 or true as a query parameter in your media URL. For example, watch this YouTube video. This functionality is available for CleverTap iOS SDK 3.7.2 and above.

Updated 12 days ago