react-native-giphy-ui

Giphy For React Native

Cross Platform wrapper around the Giphy SDK for both iOS and Android, giving you access to Giphy large GIF library. Works well with react-native-gifted-chat and Typescript.

Prerequisites

• You need to get an API Key from Giphy Developers
• iOS 10.0+
• Swift 5.0

Example

You can view the source code for the example application here

iOS Application

Installation

Install the library using either yarn or npm like so:

$ npm install --save react-native-giphy-ui

$ yarn add react-native-giphy-ui

iOS Installation

If you're using React Native versions > 60.0, it's relatively straightforward.

cd ios && pod install

For versions below 0.60.0, use rnpm links

• Run react-native link @jesster2k10/react-native-range-slider
• If linking fails, follow the manual linking steps

Additional Steps

This library was written in Swift, so in-order for you app to compile, you need to have at least on .swift file in your source code a bridging header to avoid a runtime error like so:

All you have to do is:

• File > New > File
• Swift File
• Name the file whatever you wish
• When prompted to create a bridging header, do so

Android Installation

For versions below 0.60.0, follow the linking instructions above.

You must add the following to your application build.gradle

repositories {
  maven {
    url "http://giphy.bintray.com/giphy-sdk"
  }
}

Your minSdkVersion must be >= 19.

Usage

This library offers an imperative api wrapper around the native Giphy SDK

import { GiphyUI } from 'react-native-giphy-ui';
 
// Configure the client with the api key
GiphyUI.configure('GIPHY_API_KEY');
 
// Present the ui
GiphyUI.present(
  {
    theme: 'dark',
    layout: 'carousel',
    rating: 'ratedPG13',
    showConfirmationScreen: false,
    mediaTypes: ['gfs'],
  },
  selectedMedia => {
    console.log('Picked media', selectedMedia);
  }
);

Reference

GiphyUI

• present
• configure

present(config: GiphyPresentConfig, onSelect: (media: GiphyGif) => void, onDismiss?: Callback)

Shows the GiphyViewController with a customized configuration, and an on select/dismiss callback.

GiphyUI.present(
  {
    theme: 'light',
  },
  media => {
    console.log(media);
  }
);

GiphyPresentConfig

Name	Type	Default	Description
theme	enum('light', 'dark')	light	The theme of the gif picker
layout	enum('carousel', 'waterfall')	waterfall	The layout of the gif picker
rating	enum('nsfw', 'ratedPG13', 'ratedPG', 'unrated', 'ratedR', 'ratedY, 'ratedG')	ratedPG	set a specific content rating for the search results.
trayHeightMultiplier	number	0.7	height for the tray's "snap point" as a ratio of the GiphyViewController's height.
showConfirmationScreen	boolean	false	show a secondary confirmation screen when the user taps a GIF.
shouldLocalizeSearch	boolean	false	localize the search results based on phone settings
mediaTypes	enum('gifs', 'stickers', 'text', 'emoji')[]	['gifs']	Set the content type(s) you'd like to show

GiphyGif

Please view the types file

Callback

type Callback = (() => void) | null;

configure(apiKey: string)

Configures the api client with a given api key.

GiphyCache (iOS Only)

• setSetting
• downloadAssetUrl

setSetting(setting: 'memoryOnly' | 'diskOnly')

This controls how the GIFs are cached on the device. If you only want to store the GIF caches in memory you can:

GiphyCache.setSetting('memoryOnly');

Similarly, if you want to store the cache on the disk; you can:

GiphyCache.setSetting('diskOnly');

downloadAssetUrl(url: string): Promise<Asset>

Returns the raw image data for a cached image.

const asset = await GiphyCache.downloadAssetUrl(url);
console.log(asset.data); // base 64 encoded data

Asset

type Asset = {
  width: number;
  height: number;
  data: string; // base 64 image
};

setDiskCacheByteLimit(limit: number)

The default disk cache limit is 300mb, if you want to increase it, call on this method like so:

const oneGB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000;
GiphyCache.setDiskCacheByteLimit(oneGB);

GiphyMediaView (iOS Only)

This API has not been fully implemented yet.

A wrapper around GPHMediaView to display a Gif Media

Note: you can use a regular React Native Image to display the gif

import {GiphyMediaView} from 'react-native-giphy-ui'
 
const App = () => {
  //...
  const media = //
 
  return (
    <GiphyMediaView media={media} />
  )
}

Acknowledgments

• This library is based off of giphy-ios-sdk-ui and giphy-android-sdk-ui

Roadmap

• Extend coverage of the native api
• Improve documentation
• Unit tests
• Flow support

Contribution

Please visit the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

MIT