Ionic Capacitor Quickstart for HyperTrack SDK

HyperTrack lets you add live location tracking to your mobile app. Live location is made available along with ongoing activity, tracking controls and tracking outage with reasons.

This repo contains an example Ionic Capacitor app that has everything you need to get started.

For information about how to get started with Ionic Capacitor SDK, please check this Guide.

How to get started?

Create HyperTrack Account

Sign up for HyperTrack and get your publishable key from the Setup page.

Set up the environment

Run npm i -g @ionic/cli

Environment setup Getting started with Ionic Capacitor

Clone Quickstart app

Install Dependencies

General Dependencies

Run: npm install

iOS dependencies

Quickstart app uses CocoaPods dependency manager to install the latest version of the iOS SDK. Using the latest version of CocoaPods is advised.

If you don't have CocoaPods, install it first.

cd ios/App
pod install

Update the publishable key

Insert your HyperTrack publishable key to const PUBLISHABLE_KEY in src/app/home/home.page.ts

Set up silent push notifications

HyperTrack SDK needs Firebase Cloud Messaging to manage on-device tracking as well as enable using HyperTrack cloud APIs from your server to control the tracking.

Run the app

Run ionic capacitor sync

Android

1. Run ionic capacitor run android (Android Studio will be opened)
2. Run the app from Android Studio.

iOS

Open the app's workspace file (/ios/***.xcworkspace) with Xcode.

Select your device (SDK requires real device, it won't work using simulator) and hit Run.

Grant permissions

Grant location and activity permissions (choose "Always Allow" for location).

Start tracking

Press Start tracking button.

To see the device on a map, open the HyperTrack dashboard.

Support

Join our Slack community for instant responses. You can also email us at help@hypertrack.com