Swift Package Manager Integration

Requirements

Installing the iOS SDK via Swift Package Manager automates the majority of the installation process for you. Before beginning this process please ensure that you are using Xcode 12 or greater.

Note that tvOS and Push Stories support is not yet available via Swift Package Manager.
Push Stories are available through a side-by-side integration with Cocoapods.

Step 1: Adding the dependency to your project

Open your project and navigate to your project’s settings. Select the tab named Swift Packages and click on the add button (+) at the bottom left.

Enter the url of our iOS SDK repository (https://github.com/Appboy/appboy-ios-sdk) in the text field and click Next:

On the next screen, select the SDK version and click Next.

Versions 3.29.0 and higher are compatible with Swift Package Manager.

Select the package that best fits your needs and click Finish:

• AppboyUI
  • Best suited if you plan to use UI components provided by Braze.
  • Includes AppboyKit automatically.
• AppboyKit
  • Best suited if you don’t need to use any of the UI components provided by Braze (e.g. Content Cards, In-App Messages, etc.).

Make sure you select either AppboyKit or AppboyUI. Including both packages can lead to undesired behavior.

Step 2: Configuring your project

Next, navigate to your project build settings and add the -ObjC flag to the Other Linker Flags setting. Please note that this flag must be added and errors resolved in order to further integrate the SDK.

Edit the scheme of the target including the Appboy package (Product > Scheme > Edit Scheme menu item):

• Click the expand ▶︎ next to Build and select Post-actions. Press + and select New Run Script Action.
• In the dropdown next to Provide build settings from, select your app’s target.
• Copy this script into the open field:

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  rm -rf "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Frameworks/libAppboyKitLibrary.a"
  rm -rf "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Plugins/libAppboyKitLibrary.a"
  

Step 3: Updating your App Delegate

• OBJECTIVE-C
• swift

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#import "AppboyKit.h"

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[Appboy startWithApiKey:@"YOUR-APP-IDENTIFIER-API-KEY"
         inApplication:application
     withLaunchOptions:launchOptions];

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import AppboyKit

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Appboy.start(withApiKey: "YOUR-APP-IDENTIFIER-API-KEY", in:application, withLaunchOptions:launchOptions)

Step 4: Specify Your Data Cluster

Compile-time Endpoint Configuration (Recommended)

If given a pre-existing custom endpoint…

• Starting with Braze iOS SDK v3.0.2, you can set a custom endpoint using the Info.plist file. Add the Appboy dictionary to your Info.plist file. Inside the Appboy dictionary, add the Endpoint string subentry and set the value to your custom endpoint URL’s authority (for example, sdk.iad-01.braze.com, not https://sdk.iad-01.braze.com).

Your Braze representative should have already advised you of the correct endpoint.

Runtime Endpoint Configuration

If given a pre-existing custom endpoint…

• Starting with Braze iOS SDK v3.17.0+, you can override set your endpoint via the ABKEndpointKey inside the appboyOptions parameter passed to startWithApiKey:inApplication:withLaunchOptions:withAppboyOptions:. Set the value to your custom endpoint URL’s authority (for example, sdk.iad-01.braze.com, not https://sdk.iad-01.braze.com).

Implementation Example

See the AppDelegate.m file in the Stopwatch sample app.