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Ionic Capacitor HyperTrack SDK is a wrapper around native iOS and Android SDKs that allows to integrate them into Ionic Capacitor apps.

Requirements

Basic integration

Updating the SDK? Check out our CHANGELOG and Migration Guide to see what's changed.

Add HyperTrack SDK to your project

npm install hypertrack-sdk-ionic-capacitor

iOS

Install the native HyperTrack SDK through CocoaPods:

cd ios
pod install

Enable Background Modes

Enable Background Modes

Add purpose strings

Add purpose strings

Set up silent push notifications

Set the publishable key

Get your publishable key from the Setup page.

Grant the permissions to the app

Start tracking

Now the app is ready to be tracked from the cloud.

You will need the device id to start tracking, check the Identify devices section for instructions on how to get it.

Follow the Track Work guide to learn how to control device tracking from your backend.

Dashboard

Once your app is running, go to the dashboard where you can see a list of all your devices and their live location with ongoing activity on the map.

Recommended additional steps

Identify devices

All devices tracked on HyperTrack are uniquely identified using UUID. You can get this identifier programmatically in your app by calling getDeviceId().

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The device ID is changed on each app re-install or clearing the app data

Another approach to identification is to tag devices with names that will make it easy to distinguish them on HyperTrack Dashboard.

HyperTrack.setName("Device name")

You can additionaly tag devices with custom metadata (and filter them in the Dashboard using metadata fields). Metadata should be representable in JSON.

HyperTrack.setMetadata({"key": "value"})

Handle errors

Use the getErrors() or subscribeToErrors() to make sure that when the driver navigates to the screen where tracking is supposed to happen, there are no blockers that can prevent that.

You can use subscription API to be able to react immediately when errors come up:

HyperTrack.getErrors().forEach((element) => {
  switch (errors) {
    ...
  }
});


const errorsSubscription = HyperTrack.subscribeToErrors { errors in
	errors.forEach((element) => {
    switch (error) {
      ...
    }
  }
}

// Call .remove() to unsubscribe
errorsSubscription.remove()

See Error API reference to get the full list of errors.

Reference

For a full SDK API reference see HyperTrack Ionic Capacitor SDK Reference

SDK integration examples

To learn more about SDK integration examples, you may visit these resources:

Quickstart apps

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