React Native components to create activity and notification feeds using Stream
The official React Native integration library for Stream, a web service for building scalable newsfeeds and activity streams.
- Flat feeds
- Timelines and Newsfeeds
- Notification feed
- Likes
- Comments
- Activity detail view
- Realtime notifications
The components provided by this package are available for apps built with Expo
(created with create-react-native-app
), but also for apps with native code
(created with react-native init
). You should install the package that matches
your situation:
# For Expo apps
npm i expo-activity-feed --save
# For apps with native code
npm i react-native-activity-feed --save
Both packages export the same components (which they re-export from the
underlying react-native-activity-feed-core
package).
If you use the package for apps with native code you need to do some more steps to get the image upload functionality working. If you don't need that feel free to skip these steps.
- Run the following command:
react-native link react-native-image-picker
Add the following permissions to android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
Add the following key/value pairs to ios/{app-name-here}/Info.plist
:
<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) would like access to your photo gallery</string>
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) would like to use your camera</string>
<key>NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) would like to save photos to your photo gallery</string>
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME) would like to your microphone (for videos)</string>
- Make sure that the gradle version inside
android/build.gradle
is 2.2.0 or higher:
buildscript {
// ....
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3'
}
}
In order to use Stream React Components in your application, you first need to initialize the StreamApp
component. StreamApp
holds your application config and acts as a service/data provider.
<StreamApp
apiKey="{API_KEY}"
appId="{APP_ID}"
userId="{USER_ID}"
token="{TOKEN}"
analyticsToken="{ANALYTICS_TOKEN}"
>
{/* everything from your application interacting with Stream should be nested here */}
</StreamApp>
- API_KEY your Stream application API_KEY
- API_ID your Stream application ID
- USER_ID current user's ID
- TOKEN the authentication token for current user
- ANALYTICS_TOKEN [optional] the Analytics auth token
You can find your API_KEY
and APP_ID
on Stream's dashboard.
The authentication user token cannot be generated client-side (that would require sharing your API secret). You should provision a user token as part of the sign-up / login flow to your application from your backend.
const client = stream.connect(
API_KEY,
API_SECRET,
);
const userToken = client.createUserToken(userId);
console.log(userToken);
React components have analytics instrumentation built-in, this simplifies the integration with Stream. In order to enable analytics tracking, you need to initialize StreamApp
with a valid analytics token. You can generate this server-side as well.
const client = stream.connect(
API_KEY,
API_SECRET,
);
const analyticsToken = client.getAnalyticsToken();
console.log(analyticsToken);
Copyright (c) 2015-2019 Stream.io Inc, and individual contributors. All rights reserved.
See the file "LICENSE" for information on the history of this software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.