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Have a splashcreen in your app ?

Allowing a content to be displayed in your splashcreen can affect the push behaviour.

For this reason, a method exists to prevent the display of any Accengage content once the splashcreen is loading. Please check this page for more information.


3.1 Customize the SDK default launching configuration

The library provides a number of advanced configuration features that can be controlled with the ACCConfiguration object.

The configurations can be set simply by using the AccengageConfig.plist you've added to your project, or at runtime using the exposed properties of the ACCConfiguration object. See the ACCConfiguration documentation for the full list of configuration options.

 

IDFA collection

The IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), is automatically collected by the library. Note that you can disable the IDFA collection by setting the property to NO.

Automatic integration

It's not required to implement the notification-related delegate methods. The library can intercept the UIApplicationDelegate and the UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate messages and forward them to your original delegate.

This should be compatible with the majority of application use cases, but if you prefer, you can disable this behavior.

If you choose to disable the automatic integration, you will need to implement all notification-related UIApplicationDelegate and UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate methods. See the Push documentation for more details.

Tracking mode

Depending on your privacy rules, you can decide to choose the restricted tracking mode which disables the collection of certain device data such as connection type, carrier name, local date and jailbreak state.

Note that if you use the restricted mode, some advanced targeting features may not be available. This restriction is not recommended for most integrations.

Session timeout

The library provides automated session management. This value indicates how long (in seconds) the app may be in the background before starting a new session upon resume. A default implementation has a session timeout period of 5 minutes. If the app remains in the background for longer than the session timeout period, the next time it's opened a new session will be started.

 

Note

Each new session equals to a new application visit which means that new server calls are made.

It is for this reason that we recommend that you keep the session timeout period set to 5 minutes.

Delay SDK Launch

If you prefer to start the SDK with a delay (e.g. as a result of a user action), you'll need to pass the launch options information to the SDK. This information is provided by the system in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions callback and should be set using the launchOptions property of the ACCConfiguration object. 

Custom notification sounds

You can specify a custom sound, that iOS will play when it receives a local or remote notification for your app. For more details, you can consult Apple's documentation.

Remember that the default sound is played when:

  • The sound file is not found.
  • The sound is longer than 30 seconds.
  • The data format is invalid. Accepted data formats are: aiff, wav, or caf.

To add the sound file to your project, you can simply drag and drop it to your resource folder. Make sure you check the box Copy items if needed.

In the Accengage dashboard, you can easily specify this sound when composing a push message by selecting "custom" in the sound section, and enter the file name with its extension (customsound.wav for instance).

Prefer a short file name.

Configure interactive notifications

Interactive notifications give the user a quick and easy way to perform relevant tasks in response to a notification. Instead of the user being forced to launch your app, the interface for an actionable notification displays custom action buttons that the user can tap. When tapped, each button dismisses the notification interface and forwards the selected action to your app for immediate handling. Forwarding the action to your app avoids the need for the user to navigate further in your app to perform the action, thereby saving time.

A set of default notification categories is provided by Accengage. If you want to add more categories for interactive notifications, you should call the setCustomCategories: before registering for push notifications:

    Note

    If you would like to handle custom categories and buttons, you must declare them in the Accengage Dashboard (Settings > Settings > Categories (Buttons)). See our User Guide for more details.

    3.2 Handling push delegate callbacks manually

    If you choose to disable the automatic integration, by changing the automaticPushDelegateEnabled property of your ACCConfiguration object to NO, you will need to add the following code:

    1. Set UNUserNotificationCenter delegate

      • Implement the delegates methods

        3.3 Carousel Template

        Carousel template is a rich notification template so before starting please make sure you are able to receive push with media attachments. If not, please refer to the Media Attachments section.

         

        To enable the Carousel template in your project, you will need to create a Notification Content Extension.


         

        Deployment target

        By default, XCode set the most recent iOS version available as deployment target. If you run your application on a device that has an older iOS version, push notifications with carousel template won't be able to work. We recommend to set 10.0 as deployment target.

           

          1. In your Podfile, add the pod Accengage-iOS-SDK-Extension to your newly created target :

          2. Then, update your Cocoapods project.

           


          Link the AccengageExtension.framework to your newly created target

           

           

          Then, change the newly created NotificationViewController class in such a way that it inherits from ACCNotificationContentViewController and replace the code created by XCode by the following one :

             

             


            In the NotificationViewController scene of the file newly created MainInterface.storyboard file, delete the default Hello world label.

            Finally, in the Info.plist of the extension, update UNNotificationExtensionCategory to acc_carousel_category

             

            3.4 Preventing notification display

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            Silent push notifications

            Silent push notifications improve the user experience by giving you a way to wake up your app periodically so that it can refresh its data in the background.

            To enable silent push in your Xcode project:

            1. In the Project Navigator, select your project.

            2. In the editor, select your iOS app target.

            3. Select the Capabilities tab.

            4. Enable the Background Modes capability.

            5. Enable the Remote notifications background mode. 

            To enable silent push on the Accengage dashboard, tick the content available checkbox when configuring your push message.

            Please bare in mind that APNs treats silent push notifications as low priority and may throttle their delivery altogether if the total number becomes excessive. The actual limits are dynamic and can change based on conditions, but try not to send more than a few notifications per hour.

                  

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