react-native-trusted-web-activity

This module can be used to implement Android's Trusted Web Activity in a React Native project. This is only available for Android.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-trusted-web-activity --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-trusted-web-activity

Manual installation

Android

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

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

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

   include ':react-native-trusted-web-activity'
   project(':react-native-trusted-web-activity').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-trusted-web-activity/android')
   

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

     compile project(':react-native-trusted-web-activity')
   

Setup

1. In your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml file add the following inside the <application> tag,

   <activity android:name="android.support.customtabs.trusted.LauncherActivity">
       <meta-data
           android:name="android.support.customtabs.trusted.DEFAULT_URL"
           android:value="${defaultUrl}"/>
   
       <intent-filter>
           <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
   
           <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
           <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
   
           <data
               android:host="${hostName}"
               android:scheme="https"/>
       </intent-filter>
   </activity>
   

2. In your android/app/build.gradle,

   defaultConfig {
       ...
       manifestPlaceholders = [
               hostName       : "www.example.com",		//replace with the url of your PWA
               defaultUrl     : "https://www.example.com",		//replace with the url of your PWA
               assetStatements: '[{ "relation": ["delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls"], ' +
                       '"target": {"namespace": "web", "site": "https://www.example.com"}}]'
       ] 	//replace with the url of your PWA
   
       buildConfigField "String", "DEFAULT_URL", "\"${manifestPlaceholders.defaultUrl}\""
       multiDexEnabled true
       ...
   }
   

   and,

   dependencies{
       ...
       implementation 'com.google.androidbrowserhelper:androidbrowserhelper:2.0.1'
       ...
   }
   

Usage

import RNTrustedWebActivity from 'react-native-trusted-web-activity';
 
//Replace the url with your PWA's URL
RNTrustedWebActivity.goToPWA('https://www.example.com');