MirrorFly Chat for Flutter

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Requirements
3. Sending your first message
4. Getting help

Introduction

Make an easy and efficient way with CONTUS TECH MirrorFly Chat for Flutter - simply integrate the real-time chat features and functionalities into a client's app.

Requirements

The minimum requirements for MirrorFly Chat for Flutter are:

• Visual Studio Code or Android Studio
• Dart 2.19.1 or above
• Flutter 2.0.0 or higher

Step 1: Let's integrate MirrorFly Chat for Flutter

Our MirrorFly Chat will let you initialize and configure the chat easily. With the server-side, Our solution ensures the most reliable infra-management services for the chat within the app. Furthermore, we will let you know how to install the chat plugin in your app for a better in-app chat experience.

MirrorFly License Key

Follow the below steps to get your license key:

1. Sign up into MirrorFly Console page for free MirrorFly account, If you already have a MirrorFly account, sign into your account
2. Once you’re in! You get access to your MirrorFly account ‘Overview page’ where you can find a license key for further integration process
3. Copy the license key from the ‘Application info’ section

Step 2: Install packages

Installing the MirrorFly Chat is a simple process. Follow the steps mentioned below.

Android

• Add the following to your root build.gradle file in your Android folder.

   allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://repo.mirrorfly.com/snapshot/"
        }
    }
  }

iOS

• Check and Add the following code at end of your ios/Podfile

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    flutter_additional_ios_build_settings(target)
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '12.1'
      config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'NO'
      config.build_settings['APPLICATION_EXTENSION_API_ONLY'] = 'No'
      config.build_settings['BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION'] = 'YES'
      config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]"] = "arm64"      
     end
  end
end

• Now, enable the below mentioned capabilities into your project by opening ios folder using Xcode.

Goto Project -> Target -> Signing & Capabilities -> Click `+ Capability` at the top left corner -> Search for `App groups` and add the `App group capability`

Note: The App Group Must be same as iOSContainerId given during the SDK Initialization. See Initialization Step 1.

Flutter

• Add following dependency in pubspec.yaml.

dependencies:
  mirrorfly_chat: ^0.0.1

• Run flutter pub get command in your project directory.

Step 3: Use the MirrorFly Chat in your App

You can use all classes and methods just with the one import statement as shown below.

import 'package:mirrorfly_chat/mirrorfly.dart';

Sending your first message

Follow the step-by-step instructions below to authenticate and send your first message.

Authentication

In order to use the features of MirrorFly Chat, you should initiate the Mirrorfly instance through user authentication with MirrorFly server. This instance communicates and interacts with the server based on an authenticated user account, allowing the client app to use the MirrorFly Chat features.

Here are the steps to sending your first message using the MirrorFly Chat:

Step 1: Initialize the MirrorFly Chat

To initialize the Chat, place the below code in your main.dart file inside main function before runApp().

 void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  Mirrorfly.init(
      baseUrl: 'https://api-preprod-sandbox.mirrorfly.com/api/v1/',
      licenseKey: 'your license key',
      iOSContainerID: 'your app group id');
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

Step 2: Registration

Use the below method to register a user in sandbox Live mode.

Info Unless you log out the session, make a note that should never call the registration method more than once in an application

Note: While registration, the below registerUser method will accept the FCM_TOKEN as an optional param and pass it across. The connection will be established automatically upon completion of registration and not required for seperate login.

Mirrorfly.registerUser(userIdentifier).then((value) {
  // you will get the user registration response
  var userData = registerModelFromJson(value);
}).catchError((error) {
  // Register user failed print throwable to find the exception details.
  debugPrint(error.message);
});

Send a One-to-One Message

Use the below method to send a text message to other user,

Note: To generate a unique user jid by username, you must call the below method

var userJid = await Mirrorfly.getJid(username);

Mirrorfly.sendTextMessage(message, jid).then((value) {
  // you will get the message sent success response
  var chatMessage = sendMessageModelFromJson(value);
});

Receive a One-to-One Message

Here the listeners would be called only when a new message is received from other user. To get more details please visit this callback listeners

Mirrorfly.onMessageReceived.listen(result){
  // you will get the new messages
  var chatMessage = sendMessageModelFromJson(result)
}

Try the sample app

The fastest way to test MirrorFly Chat is to build your chat app on top of our sample app. To create a project for the sample app, download the app from our GitHub repository. The link is down below.

• https://github.com/MirrorFly/MirrorFly-Flutter-Sample

Getting Help

Check out the Official MirrorFly Flutter docs