react-native-story-share

Share your images to instagram and snapchat stories.

Getting started

$ yarn add react-native-story-share

or

$ npm install react-native-story-share --save

Installation

1. Either choose Mostly automatic installation or Manual installation
2. Follow the Integration guide

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-story-share

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-story-share and add RNStoryShare.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNStoryShare.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.jobeso.RNStorySharePackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNStorySharePackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-story-share'
   project(':react-native-story-share').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-story-share/android')

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-story-share')

Integration

Android

• add snap client id

<application ...>
   ...

+   <meta-data android:name="com.snapchat.kit.sdk.clientId" android:value="your app’s client id" />

   ...
</application>

• add snap sdk

maven { url "https://storage.googleapis.com/snap-kit-build/maven" }

iOS

Swift

1. Under Build Settings section Build Options set Always Embed Swift Started Libraries to true
2. Make sure you have the following under library search paths

$(inherited)
$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/usr/lib/swift/$(PLATFORM_NAME)

Info.plist

• add instagram-stories and snapchat to the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes key in your app's Info.plist.

...
<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
    ...
+	<string>instagram-stories</string>
+	<string>snapchat</string>
</array>
...

snapchat

• add SCSDKClientId to your Info.plist
• add pod 'SnapSDK', :subspecs => ['SCSDKCreativeKit'] to your Podfile with use_frameworks!
• optional add build script to reduce bundle size

Usage

Share To Instagram

import RNStoryShare from "react-native-story-share";

RNStoryShare.isInstagramAvailable()
  .then(isAvailable => {

    if(isAvailable){
      RNStoryShare.shareToInstagram({
        type: RNStoryShare.BASE64, // or RNStoryShare.FILE
        attributionLink: 'https://myproject.com',
        backgroundAsset: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBO...',
        stickerAsset: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBO...',
        backgroundBottomColor: '#f44162',
        backgroundTopColor: '#f4a142'
      });
    }
  })
  .catch(e => console.log(e));

Share To Snapchat

import RNStoryShare from "react-native-story-share";

RNStoryShare.isSnapchatAvailable()
  .then(isAvailable => {

    if(isAvailable){
      RNStoryShare.shareToSnapchat({
        type: RNStoryShare.BASE64, // or RNStoryShare.FILE
        attributionLink: 'https://myproject.com',
        backgroundAsset: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBO...',
        stickerAsset: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBO...',
    captionText: 'text exemple',
    media: "photo" // or "video"
        stickerOptions: {
          height: 900,
          width: 900
        }
      });
    }
  })
  .catch(e => console.log(e));

API

Constants

Methods

isInstagramAvailable(): Promise<boolean>

Return a boolean indicating if Instagram is available on the phone.

isSnapchatAvailable(): Promise<boolean>

Return a boolean indicating if Snapchat is available on the phone.

shareToInstagram(config: ShareConfigObject): Promise<void>

type ShareConfigObject = {
  type: "base64" || "file",
    attributionLink: string,
    backgroundAsset: string,
    stickerAsset: string,
    stickerOptions: {
        height: integer,
        width: integer
    }
}

Shares a file or base64 image as background, sticker or both to Instagram. The background colors are only applyed when no background asset is set.

shareToSnapchat(config: ShareConfigObject): Promise<void>

type ShareConfigObject = {
  type: "base64" || "file",
    attributionLink: string,
    backgroundAsset: string,
    stickerAsset: string,
    backgroundBottomColor: string,
    backgroundTopColor: string
}

Shares a file or base64 image as background, sticker or both to Snapchat. stickerOptions are only supported by Android.