iOS SDK

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The iOS Swift SDK

The iOS Swift SDK is published in GitHub at https://github.com/prelude-so/apple-sdk .

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Usage

The Swift SDK allows you to capture certain device signals that will be reported back to Prelude and perform silent verification of mobile devices.

It is provided as a regular Swift package that you can import as a dependency directly into your iOS application.

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Gathering Device Signals

Usage of the SDK to gather the signals very simple, you just need to configure it with your SDK key and call a single dispatch function:

let configuration = Configuration(sdkKey: "sdk_XXXXXXXXXXXX")
let prelude = Prelude(configuration)
let dispatchID = try? await prelude.dispatchSignals()

Important: When you generate the SDK key in the Prelude dashboard you will be able to copy it and you should store it somewhere secure, as the dashboard will not allow you to display the same key again.

Once you get the dispatch ID you should report it back to your own back-end API to be forwarded in subsequent network calls.

There is no restriction on when to call this API, you just need to take this action before you need to report back the dispatch ID. The recommended way of integrating it is to call the dispatchSignals function before displaying the phone number verification screen in your application. This way you can ensure that the device signals are captured and the dispatchID can be sent to your back-end with the phone number. Your back-end will then perform the verification call to Prelude with the phone number and the dispatch identifier.

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Silent Verification

The Silent Verification feature allows you to verify a phone number without requiring the user to manually enter a verification code.

It is available for certain carriers and requires a server-side service to handle the verification process. For this verification method to work properly, you must gather the device signals mentioned before and report the dispatch identifier to your backend (usually in your APIs verification endpoint).

Please refer to the Silent Verification documentation for more information on how to implement this feature.

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CocoaPods integration

We currently do not offer CocoaPods integration for the SDK, but creating one is a relatively straightforward process. The steps to take are:

• Download the source code from this repository, for example to a directory like prelude-apple-sdk/sdk.
• Open the Package.swift file and copy the url for the Core sdk defined in the binary target (similar to https://prelude-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sdk/releases/apple/core/X.X.X/PreludeCore-X.X.X.xcframework.zip).
• Download the Core SDK from that url and unzip it to a subdirectory of the one above (for example prelude-apple-sdk/sdk/core). You should have a single subdirectory PreludeCore.xcframework under prelude-apple-sdk/core
• Remove the Package.swift file.
• Create a new podspec file in the root of the prelude-apple-sdk directory with the following content:

Pod::Spec.new do |s|
  s.name           = 'PreludeAppleSDK'
  s.version        = 'X.X.X' # Update this to the version of the SDK
  s.summary        = 'Prelude Apple SDK'
  s.license        = 'Apache-2.0'
  s.author         = 'Prelude <hello@prelude.so> (https://github.com/prelude-so)'
  s.homepage       = 'https://github.com/prelude-so/apple-sdk'
  s.platforms      = { :ios => '15.1' }
  s.swift_version  = '5.4'
  s.source         = { git: 'https://github.com/prelude-so/apple-sdk' }
  s.static_framework = true
  s.vendored_frameworks = 'sdk/core/PreludeCore.xcframework'
  s.pod_target_xcconfig = {
    'DEFINES_MODULE' => 'YES',
    'SWIFT_COMPILATION_MODE' => 'wholemodule'
  }
  s.source_files = "**/*.swift", "../sdk/**/*.swift"
end

The final directory structure should look like this:

prelude-apple-sdk
├── sdk
│   ├── core
│   │   └── PreludeCore.xcframework
│   └── Sources
│       └── Prelude
│           ├── ...
├── PreludeAppleSDK.podspec

Import this .podspec file into your project and run normally.

With these steps you should have a working version of the SDK in your project.