Mobile App

Publishing your bot in the Android/iOS mobile app.

Ally allows you to embed your chatbot inside your Android/iOS application as a web view.

Native SDKs are being worked on and are not available at the moment.

To request for SDK, email us at [email protected].

Step 1: Create a Page in Your Mobile App

To display the chatbot in a web view inside your application, you need to create a new page and embed the chatbot code snippet.

You can choose to embed the chat bubble OR the iframe to render it on the whole page.

You can find the code snippet by clicking the 3 dots icon on the bot card -> Embed.

Step 2: Create a Webview Screen to Launch the Bot

On your mobile app, add a help icon or option on your menu that allows users to open this page.

Doing this will open the chatbot-hosted page that you created in Step 1.

// Example code to open chatbot-hosted URL as webview 

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.loadUrl("https://chatbot-hosted-webpage-url");

Note:

• Make sure the JavaScript is enabled inside the web view.

• To maintain the conversation history, enable a persistent cookie in the web view.