React-native-ibm-mobilefirst NPM

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IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation React Native SDK plug-in

To add IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation capabilities to an existing React Native app, you add the react-native-ibm-mobilefirst plug-in to your app. The react-native-ibm-mobilefirst plug-in contains the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation SDK.

Refer to the documentation links for more information.

Installation

Add this plug-in in the same way that you add any other npm plug-in to your app. For example, with the React Native CLI:

`npm install react-native-ibm-mobilefirst --save`

Getting Started

Pre-requisites

Make sure you have all the pre-requisites for a React Native app covered. See the React Native Getting Started page if you're new to this whole stuff.
Setup of MobileFirst server

Create React Native Project

The first step is to create a React Native project. Let's call our app as the MobileFirstApp. Use the React Native CLI to create a new project.

react-native init MobileFirstApp

Next, add the react native plugin to your app

cd MobileFirstApp
npm install react-native-ibm-mobilefirst --save

Link your project so that all native dependencies are added to your React Native project. This step is not required for react-native version 0.60 and above.

react-native link

Additional platform specific steps

Android

Make the following changes to AndroidManifest.xml (<PROJECT_ROOT>/android/app/src/main/)

Add xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" to the manifest tag. E.g.

<manifest 
	xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
	xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
  package="com.mobilefirstapp">

Add tools:replace="android:allowBackup" to the application tag. E.g.

<application
      android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:allowBackup="false"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
      tools:replace="android:allowBackup">

iOS

Install Mobilefirst specific cocopods dependencies to the project.

cd ios && pod install

This step is applicable only for iOS platform.

Test the Application

Android

To run the application :
`react-native run-android`

iOS

To run the application :
	`react-native run-ios`

Supported platforms

Android
iOS

Changelog

19 Nov 2018 1. Fixed an issue where the client configuration files were getting replaced upon subsequent installs 2. Removed warnings of “constantsToExport” for react-native version 0.57+ 3. Fixed an issue where incorrect response was returned to WLResourceRequest API for empty arrays and timestamps. 4. Fixed an issue where Android builds failed to resolve lint-gradle-api.jar