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October 01, 2024

Braze integration

Connect Woosmap Geofencing SDK with Braze

Braze Integration
Send Braze Custom events
React-native Integration: Send Braze Custom events from react-native-plugin-geofencing
Flutter Integration: Send Braze Custom events from geofencing_flutter_plugin

Woosmap Geofencing SDK can send events to Braze from different context types: Geofences, POI, Visits and ZOI.

Whenever location events trigger, you can send custom events with associated properties to your App via a listener method.

Braze Integration

Requirements

Braze SDK: Download the latest stable SDK from appropriate platform page.

Configuration

To configure your app with the Braze SDK follow the instructions on https://www.braze.com/docs/developer_guide/home.

Send Braze Custom events

Custom events let you track user activities and key conversions in your mobile app, and tie them back to corresponding push messaging campaigns.

iOS Example

            import WoosmapGeofencing

public class DataRegion: RegionsServiceDelegate {

    // the didEnterPOIRegion() is called when a user enters in the geofence 
    public func didEnterPOIRegion(POIregion: Region) {
        
        // check first if the POIregion.origin is equal to "POI" 
        if POIregion.origin == "POI"
        {
            if let POI = POIs.getPOIbyIdStore(idstore: POIregion.identifier ?? "") as POI? {
                AppDelegate.braze?.logCustomEvent(
                  name: "woos_geofence_entered_event",
                  properties: [
                    "identifier": POI.idstore,
                    "name": POI.name
                  ]
                )
            }
            else {
                // error: Related POI doesn't exist
            }
        }
    }

    

Android Example

            
import com.braze.Braze;
import com.braze.models.outgoing.BrazeProperties;


public class WoosRegionLogReadyListener implements Woosmap.RegionLogReadyListener {
    public void RegionLogReadyCallback(RegionLog regionLog) {

        POI poi = WoosmapDb.getInstance(getApplicationContext()).getPOIsDAO().getPOIbyStoreId(regionLog.idStore);

        String eventName = "woos_geofence_exited_event";

        if(regionLog.didEnter) {
            eventName = "woos_geofence_entered_event";
        }

        Braze.getInstance(getApplicationContext()).logCustomEvent("eventName",
            new BrazeProperties(new JSONObject()
                .put("identifier", poi.idStore)
                .put("name", poi.name);
        ));
    }
}

    

Geofences Events

Enter eventName: woos_geofence_entered_event
Exit eventName: woos_geofence_exited_event

Event data specification

Field name	Type	Only if the region is a POI
`date`	Datetime
`id`	String
`latitude`	Double
`longitude`	Double
`radius`	Double
`name`	String	•
`idStore`	String	•
`city`	String	•
`zipCode`	String	•
`distance`	String	•
`country_code`	String	•
`address`	String	•
`tags`	String	•
`types`	String	•
`user_properties.[field_name]`	String	•

React-native Integration: Send Braze Custom events from `react-native-plugin-geofencing`

React Example project

Braze Integration

Follow the Braze Implementation guide in order to add Braze plugin to your project.

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using iOS Notification

Follow the steps below in order to capture events of geofence SDK

1. Add a new Swift class file, GeofencingEventsReceiver.swift, in the iOS folder and include it in your iOS workspace with the following code in it.

            import Foundation
import WoosmapGeofencing
import react_native_plugin_geofencing

extension Notification.Name {
  static let updateRegions = Notification.Name("updateRegions")
  static let didEventPOIRegion = Notification.Name("didEventPOIRegion")
}

@objc(GeofencingEventsReceiver)
class GeofencingEventsReceiver: NSObject {
  @objc public func startReceivingEvent() {
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(POIRegionReceivedNotification),
                                           name: .didEventPOIRegion,
                                           object: nil)
  }
  @objc func POIRegionReceivedNotification(notification: Notification) {
    if let POIregion = notification.userInfo?["Region"] as? Region{
      // YOUR CODE HERE
      if POIregion.didEnter {
        NSLog("didEnter")
        
        // check first if the POIregion.origin is equal to "POI"
        if POIregion.origin == "POI"
        {
          if let POI = POIs.getPOIbyIdStore(idstore: POIregion.identifier) as POI? {            
            AppDelegate.braze?.logCustomEvent(
              name: "woos_geofence_entered_event",
              properties: [
                "identifier": POI.idstore,
                "name": POI.name
              ]
            )
          }
          else {
            // error: Related POI doesn't exist
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  // Stop receiving notification
  @objc public func stopReceivingEvent() {
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: .didEventPOIRegion, object: nil)
  }
  
}

    

2. Update AppDelegate.h and AppDelegate.mm and as following

            #import <RCTAppDelegate.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <UserNotifications/UNUserNotificationCenter.h>
#import <BrazeKit/BrazeKit-Swift.h>
#import "BrazeReactBridge.h"

@interface AppDelegate : RCTAppDelegate<UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate>
@property (class, nonatomic, strong) Braze *braze;
@end

    

            #import "Your namespace-Swift.h"

GeofencingEventsReceiver * objWoosmapReceiver;

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
  self.moduleName = @"MarketingConnector";
  // You can add your custom initial props in the dictionary below.
  // They will be passed down to the ViewController used by React Native.
  self.initialProps = @{};

  // Setup Braze
  BRZConfiguration *configuration = [[BRZConfiguration alloc] initWithApiKey:@"{BRAZE_API_KEY}"
                                                                      endpoint:@"{BRAZE_ENDPOINT}"];
  // Enable logging and customize the configuration here.
  configuration.logger.level = BRZLoggerLevelInfo;
  Braze *braze = [BrazeReactBridge initBraze:configuration];
  AppDelegate.braze = braze;

  // Setup Woosmap geofence
  objWoosmapReceiver = [GeofencingEventsReceiver new];
  [objWoosmapReceiver startReceivingEvent];
  
  
  ....
  ....
  ....
  
  return [super application:application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions];
}

    

3. Update Bridging header file to access Appdelegate class in GeofencingEventsReceiver.swift file

            //
//  Use this file to import your target's public headers that you would like to expose to Swift.
//
#import "AppDelegate.h"

    

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using Android Broadcasts

Geofencing SDK triggers an action com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED and broadcasts regionLog in the intent extra. The format of the data will always be as follows:

        {
  "longitude": -0.1337,
  "latitude": 51.50998,
  "date": 1700824501480,
  "didenter": true,
  "identifier": "custom-region1",
  "radius": 100,
  "frompositiondetection": false,
  "eventname": "woos_geofence_exited_event",
  "spenttime": 75
}

Follow the steps below in order to listen to the broadcasts sent by the Woosmap Geofencing Plugin

1. Add following dependencies in the build.gradle file of your main project.

              repositories {
          ...
          ....
          maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
      }

    

2. Add following dependencies in the app/build.gradle file of your main project.

                dependencies {
        ...
        ...
        implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:2.+"
        implementation "woosmap:geofencing-core-android-sdk:core_geofence_2.+"
        implementation "com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencing:woosmap-mobile-sdk:4.+"
    }

    

3. Add a new class GeofencingEventsReceiver.kt/java and add following code in it.

              
  import android.content.BroadcastReceiver
  import android.content.Context
  import android.content.Intent
  import android.util.Log
  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.WoosmapDb
  import org.json.JSONObject
  import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService
  import java.util.concurrent.Executors
  import com.braze.Braze;
  import com.braze.models.outgoing.BrazeProperties;

  class GeofencingBroadcastReceiver: BroadcastReceiver() {
      val TAG: String = "GeofencingReceiver"
      private val executorService: ExecutorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()

      override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
          Log.d(TAG, "Received broadcast")
          executorService.execute {
              try {
                  // Get region data from the intent
                  val regionData = intent?.getStringExtra("regionLog")?.let { JSONObject(it) }
                  // Fetch the POI from the db based on the identifier
                  val poi = WoosmapDb.getInstance(context).poIsDAO.getPOIbyStoreId(regionData!!.getString("identifier"))

                  if (poi != null) { //poi could be null if the entered/exited region is a custom region.
                    Braze.getInstance(context).logCustomEvent(regionData.getString("eventname"),
                        BrazeProperties(JSONObject()
                            .put("identifier", poi.idStore)
                            .put("name", poi.name)
                    ))
                  }
              } catch (ex: Exception) {
                  Log.e(TAG, ex.toString())
              }
          }
      }
  }

    

              import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.util.Log;

  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.POI;
  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.WoosmapDb;

  import com.braze.Braze;
  import com.braze.models.outgoing.BrazeProperties;

  import org.json.JSONObject;

  import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
  import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

  public class GeofencingEventsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
      private static final String TAG = "GeofencingReceiver";
      private final ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
      @Override
      public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
          Log.d(TAG, "Received broadcast");
          executorService.execute(() -> {
              try{
                  // Get region data from the intent
                  JSONObject regionData = new JSONObject(intent.getStringExtra("regionLog"));
                  // Fetch the POI from the db based on the identifier
                  POI poi;
                  poi = WoosmapDb.getInstance(context).getPOIsDAO().getPOIbyStoreId(regionData.getString("identifier"));
                  if (poi != null){ //poi could be null if the entered/exited region is a custom region.
                    Braze.getInstance(context).logCustomEvent(regionData.getString("eventname"),
                        new BrazeProperties(new JSONObject()
                            .put("identifier", poi.idStore)
                            .put("name", poi.name)
                    ));
                  }
              }
              catch (Exception ex){
                  Log.e(TAG, ex.toString());
              }
          });
      }
  }


    

4. Register the newly created Broadcast Receiver from Application class.

              class MainApplication : Application(), ReactApplication {
    lateinit var geofencingEventsReceiver: GeofencingEventsReceiver
    
    override fun onCreate() {
      super.onCreate()
      ...
      ...

      // Register the receiver with the filter
      geofencingEventsReceiver = GeofencingEventsReceiver()
      val filter = IntentFilter("com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED")
      registerReceiver(geofencingEventsReceiver, filter, RECEIVER_EXPORTED)
    }
  }

    

              public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {
    private GeofencingEventsReceiver geofencingEventsReceiver;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
      super.onCreate();
      ...
      ...
      // Register the receiver with the filter
      geofencingEventsReceiver = new GeofencingEventsReceiver();
      IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter("com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED");
      registerReceiver(geofencingEventsReceiver, filter, RECEIVER_EXPORTED);
    }
  }

    

Flutter Integration: Send Braze Custom events from `geofencing_flutter_plugin`

Flutter Example project

Braze Integration

Follow the Flutter Braze Implementation guide to add the Braze plugin to your project.

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using iOS Notification

Follow the steps below to capture events of geofence SDK

1. Add a new Swift class file, GeofencingEventsReceiver.swift, in the iOS folder and include it in your iOS workspace with the following code in it.

              import Foundation
  import WoosmapGeofencing

  extension Notification.Name {
    static let updateRegions = Notification.Name("updateRegions")
    static let didEventPOIRegion = Notification.Name("didEventPOIRegion")
  }

  @objc(GeofencingEventsReceiver)
  class GeofencingEventsReceiver: NSObject {
    @objc public func startReceivingEvent() {
      NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(POIRegionReceivedNotification),
                                            name: .didEventPOIRegion,
                                            object: nil)
    }
    @objc func POIRegionReceivedNotification(notification: Notification) {
      if let POIregion = notification.userInfo?["Region"] as? Region{
        // YOUR CODE HERE
        if POIregion.didEnter {
          NSLog("didEnter")
          
          // check first if the POIregion.origin is equal to "POI"
          if POIregion.origin == "POI"
          {
            if let POI = POIs.getPOIbyIdStore(idstore: POIregion.identifier) as POI? {
              AppDelegate.braze?.logCustomEvent(
                name: "woos_geofence_entered_event",
                properties: [
                  "identifier": POI.idstore,
                  "name": POI.name
                ]
              )
            }
            else {
              // error: Related POI doesn't exist
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    // Stop receiving notification
    @objc public func stopReceivingEvent() {
      NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: .didEventPOIRegion, object: nil)
    }
    
  }

    

2. Integrate AppDelegate.swift to receive SDK events

              import BrazeKit
  import braze_plugin


  @objc class AppDelegate: FlutterAppDelegate {
      let objreciver:GeofencingEventsReceiver = GeofencingEventsReceiver()
      static var braze: Braze? = nil
    override func application(
      _ application: UIApplication,
      didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?
    ) -> Bool {

      // Setup Braze
      let configuration = Braze.Configuration(
        apiKey: "<BRAZE_API_KEY>",
        endpoint: "<BRAZE_ENDPOINT>"
      )
        // - Enable logging or customize configuration here
      configuration.logger.level = .info
      let braze = BrazePlugin.initBraze(configuration)
      AppDelegate.braze = braze

      GeneratedPluginRegistrant.register(with: self)
      ...
      ...
    }
  }

    

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using Android Broadcasts

Geofencing SDK triggers an action com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED and broadcasts regionLog in the intent extra.

Follow the steps below in order to listen to the broadcasts sent by the Woosmap Geofencing Plugin.

1. Add the following dependencies in the build.gradle file of your main project.

                repositories {
            ...
            ....
            maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
        }

    

2. Add the following dependencies in the app/build.gradle file of your main project.

                dependencies {
        ...
        ...
        implementation "woosmap:geofencing-core-android-sdk:core_geofence_2.+"
        implementation "com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencing:woosmap-mobile-sdk:4.+"
    }

    

3. Add a new class GeofencingEventsReceiver.java/kt, and include the following code in it.

              import android.content.BroadcastReceiver
  import android.content.Context
  import android.content.Intent
  import android.util.Log
  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.WoosmapDb
  import org.json.JSONObject
  import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService
  import java.util.concurrent.Executors
  import com.braze.Braze;
  import com.braze.models.outgoing.BrazeProperties;

  class GeofencingBroadcastReceiver: BroadcastReceiver() {
      val TAG: String = "GeofencingReceiver"
      private val executorService: ExecutorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()

      override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
          Log.d(TAG, "Received broadcast")
          executorService.execute {
              try {
                  // Get region data from the intent
                  val regionData = intent?.getStringExtra("regionLog")?.let { JSONObject(it) }
                  // Fetch the POI from the db based on the identifier
                  val poi = WoosmapDb.getInstance(context).poIsDAO.getPOIbyStoreId(regionData!!.getString("identifier"))

                  if (poi != null) { //poi could be null if the entered/exited region is a custom region.
                    Braze.getInstance(context).logCustomEvent(regionData.getString("eventname"),
                        BrazeProperties(JSONObject()
                            .put("identifier", poi.idStore)
                            .put("name", poi.name)
                    ))
                  }
              } catch (ex: Exception) {
                  Log.e(TAG, ex.toString())
              }
          }
      }
  }

    

              import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.util.Log;

  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.POI;
  import com.webgeoservices.woosmapgeofencingcore.database.WoosmapDb;

  import org.json.JSONObject;

  import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
  import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

  import com.braze.Braze;
  import com.braze.models.outgoing.BrazeProperties;

  public class GeofencingEventsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
      private static final String TAG = "GeofencingReceiver";
      private final ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
      @Override
      public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
          Log.d(TAG, "Received broadcast");
          executorService.execute(() -> {
              try{
                  // Get region data from the intent
                  JSONObject regionData = new JSONObject(intent.getStringExtra("regionLog"));
                  // Fetch the POI from the db based on the identifier
                  POI poi;
                  poi = WoosmapDb.getInstance(context).getPOIsDAO().getPOIbyStoreId(regionData.getString("identifier"));
                  if (poi != null){ //poi could be null if the entered/exited region is a custom region.
                    Braze.getInstance(context).logCustomEvent(regionData.getString("eventname"),
                        new BrazeProperties(new JSONObject()
                            .put("identifier", poi.idStore)
                            .put("name", poi.name)
                    ));
                  }
              }
              catch (Exception ex){
                  Log.e(TAG, ex.toString());
              }
          });
      }
  }

    

4. If you already have a custom android.app.Application subclass registered, you can skip this step.

Open your project’s Android folder in Android Studio. Create a new class that subclasses android.app.Application. It can be named however you want, but we will call it MainApplication for the sake of this example.Place it in your root package.

Then, add an onCreate() override. The class should look like this:

              import android.app.Application
  class MainApplication: Application() {
      override fun onCreate() {
          super.onCreate()
      }
  }

    

              import android.app.Application;
  public class MainApplication extends Application {
      @Override
      public void onCreate() {
          super.onCreate();
      }
  }

    

5. Register the newly created Broadcast Receiver in Application class.

                class MainApplication : Application() {
      lateinit var geofencingEventsReceiver: GeofencingEventsReceiver
      
      override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
          // Register the receiver with the filter
          geofencingEventsReceiver = GeofencingEventsReceiver()
          val filter = IntentFilter("com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED")
          registerReceiver(geofencingEventsReceiver, filter, RECEIVER_EXPORTED)
      }
    }

    

                public class MainApplication extends Application {
        private GeofencingEventsReceiver geofencingEventsReceiver;

        @Override
        public void onCreate() {
            super.onCreate();
            // Register the receiver with the filter
            geofencingEventsReceiver = new GeofencingEventsReceiver();
            IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter("com.woosmap.action.GEOFENCE_TRIGGERED");
            registerReceiver(geofencingEventsReceiver, filter, RECEIVER_EXPORTED);
        }
    }

    

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Braze Integration

Requirements

Configuration

Send Braze Custom events

Geofences Events

React-native Integration: Send Braze Custom events from react-native-plugin-geofencing

Braze Integration

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using iOS Notification

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using Android Broadcasts

Flutter Integration: Send Braze Custom events from geofencing_flutter_plugin

Braze Integration

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using iOS Notification

Receiving Woosmap Geofencing Region events using Android Broadcasts

React-native Integration: Send Braze Custom events from `react-native-plugin-geofencing`

Flutter Integration: Send Braze Custom events from `geofencing_flutter_plugin`