MBAutomationSwift

MBAutomationSwift is a plugin libary for MBurger, that lets you send automatic push notifications and in-app messages crated from the MBurger platform. It has as dependencies MBMessagesSwift and MBAudienceSwift. With this library you can also track user events and views.

Using MBAutomationSwift you can setup triggers for in-app messages and push notifications, in the MBurger dashboard and the SDK will show the coontent automatically when triggers are satisfied.

It depends on MBAudienceSwift because messages can be triggered by location changes or tag changes, coming from this SDK.

It depends on MBMessagesSwift because it contains all the views for the in-app messages and the checks if a message has been already displayed or not.

The data flow from all the SDKs is manage entirely by MBurger, yuo don't have to worry about it.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

With Xcode 11 you can start using Swift Package Manager to add MBAutomationSwift to your project. Follow those simple steps:

• In Xcode go to File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency.
• Enter https://github.com/Mumble-SRL/MBAutomationSwift.git in the "Choose Package Repository" dialog and press Next.
• Specify the version using rule "Up to Next Major" with "1.0.1" as its earliest version and press Next.
• Xcode will try to resolving the version, after this, you can choose the MBAutomationSwift library and add it to your app target.

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for iOS, which automates and simplifies the process of using 3rd-party libraries in your projects. You can install CocoaPods with the following command:

$ gem install cocoapods

To integrate the MBurgerSwift into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

platform :ios, '12.0'

target 'TargetName' do
    pod 'MBAutomationSwift'
end

If you use Swift rememember to add use_frameworks! before the pod declaration.

Then, run the following command:

$ pod install

CocoaPods is the preferred methot to install the library.

Chartage

Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager that builds your dependencies and provides you with binary frameworks. To integrate MBudienceSwift into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile:

github "Mumble-SRL/MBAutomationSwift"

Manual installation

To install the library manually drag and drop the folder MBAutomationSwift to your project structure in XCode.

Note that MBAutomationSwift has MBurgerSwift, MBMessagesSwift and MBAudienceSwift as dependencies, so you have to install also those libraries manually.

Initialization

To initialize automation you need to insert MBAutomation as an MBurger plugin, tipically automation is used in conjunction with the MBMessagesSwift and MBAudienceSwift plugins.

MBManager.shared.plugins = [MBAutomation(), ... other plugins]

MBAutomation can bbe initialized with 3 optional parameters:

• trackingEnabled: If the tracking is enabled or not, setting this to false all the tracking will be disabled
• trackViewsAutomatically: If the automatic track of views is enabled or not
• eventsTimerTime: The frequency used to send events and view to MBurger

Triggers

Every in-appmessage or push notification coming from MBurger can have an array of triggers, those are managed entirely by the MBAutomation SDK that evaluates them and show the mssage only when the conditioon defined by the triggers are matched.

If thre are more than one trigger, they can be evaluated with 2 methods:

• any: once one of triggers becomes true the message is displayed to the user
• all: all triggers needs to be true in order to show the message.

Here's the list of triggers managed by automation SDK:

App opening

MBAppOpeningTrigger: Becoomes true when the app has been opened n times (times property), it's checked at the app startup.

Event

MBEventTrigger: Becomes true when an event happens n times (times property)

Inactive user

MBInactiveUserTrigger: Becomes true if a user has not opened the app for n days (days parameter)

Location

MBLocationTrigger: If a user enters a location, specified by latitude, longitude and radius. This trigger can be activated with a day delay defined as the afterDays property. The location data comes from the MBAudienceSwift SDK.

Tag change

MBTagChangeTrigger: If a tag of the MBAudienceSwift SDK changes and become equals or not to a value. It has a tag property (the tag that needs to be checked) and a value property (the value that needs to be equal or different in order to activate the trigger)

View

MBViewTrigger: it's activated when a user enters a view n times (times property). If the secondsOnView the user needs to stay the seconds defined in order to activate the trigger.

Send events

You can send events with the MBAutomationSwift liike this:

MBAutomation.sendEvent("event")

You can specify 2 more parameters, both optional: name a name that will be displayed in the MBurger dashboard and a dictionary of additional metadata to specifymore fields of the event

MBAutomation.sendEvent("purchase",
                       name: "Purchase",
                       metadata: ["quantity": 1])

Events are saved in a local database and sent to the server every 10 seconds, you can change the frequency setting the eventsTimerTime property.

View Tracking

In MBAutomation the tracking of the views is automatic, you can disable it initializing MBAutomation with trackViewsAutomatically to false. MBAutomation uses method swizzling to track view automatically on viewDidAppear.

The default name for all the ViewControllers is the class name (e.g. if your ViewController is called HomeViewController you will see HomeViewController as the view). If you want to change the name for a ViewController you can setup the mbaTrackingName of the ViewController.

import MBAutomationSwift

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
	 ...
	         
    mbaTrackingName = "Home"
    ...
}

You can send additional data with the view event setting the mbaTrackingMetadata property of the ViewController, those will be displayed in the metadata field of the dashboard.

If you have diisabled the automatic tracking and you still want to track the views you can use this function, passing a UIViewController.

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    MBAutomation.trackScreenView(self)
}

As the events, views are saved in a local database and sent to the server every 10 seconds and you can change the frequency setting the eventsTimerTime property.