Customizing rich media appearance

Overview

Customize the appearance of rich media pages to make them fit your app’s style perfectly. Change the background color of your in-app messages, add some animation, or adjust the loading view to the app layout. Improve user experience with in-apps looking like a native component of the app.

Implementation

First, get an instance of the RichMediaStyle class:

iOS

PWRichMediaStyle *style = [PWRichMediaManager sharedManager].richMediaStyle;

Android

RichMediaStyle style = RichMediaManager.getRichMediaStyle();

Background color

Make in-app messages look like an inherent part of your app by changing the background color of rich media pages displayed to the app’s users.

iOS

style.backgroundColor = [[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.2f];

Android

style.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getApplication(),R.color.balck));

That’s it!

Animation

Enhance the effect of your in-app messages by animating rich media appearance.

iOS

Set the animation delegate to one of the default classes:

• PWRichMediaStyleSlideLeftAnimation,
• PWRichMediaStyleSlideRightAnimation,
• PWRichMediaStyleSlideTopAnimation,
• PWRichMediaStyleSlideBottomAnimation,
• PWRichMediaStyleCrossFadeAnimation.

style.animationDelegate = [PWRichMediaStyleCrossFadeAnimation new];

Note

By default, animation type value for iOS is PWRichMediaStyleAnimationTypeSlideBottom.

Android

Set the animation delegate to one of the default classes:

• RichMediaAnimationSlideTop,
• RichMediaAnimationSlideBottom,
• RichMediaAnimationSlideRight,
• RichMediaAnimationSlideLeft,
• RichMediaAnimationCrossFade.

richMediaStyle.setRichMediaAnimationType(new RichMediaAnimationSlideTop());

Note

By default, animation type value for Android is RichMediaAnimationSlideBottom.

To set a custom animation, implement PWRichMediaStyleAnimationDelegate method for iOS or RichMediaAnimation for Android as follows:

iOS

1. Set the animation delegate:

style.animationDelegate = self;

2. Implement PWRichMediaStyleAnimationDelegate methods (don’t forget to call a completion block):

- (void)runPresentingAnimationWithContentView:(UIView *)contentView parentView:(UIView *)parentView completion:(dispatch_block_t)completion {
    contentView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, parentView.bounds.size.height);

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.6
                          delay:0
         usingSpringWithDamping:0.4
          initialSpringVelocity:0
                        options:0
                     animations:^{
                         contentView.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
                     } completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                         completion();
                     }];
}

- (void)runDismissingAnimationWithContentView:(UIView *)contentView parentView:(UIView *)parentView completion:(dispatch_block_t)completion {
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3
                     animations:^{
                         contentView.alpha = 0.0f;
                         contentView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(2, 2);
                     } completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                         completion();
                     }];
}

Android

Implement RichMediaAnimation interface and set it for custom Rich Media close and open animation:

richMediaStyle.setRichMediaAnimation(new RichMediaAnimation() {
    //Allows to set rules and behavior for custom Rich Media open animation
    @Override
    public void openAnimation(View contentView, View parentView) {
        AnimationSet fadeInAnimation = new AnimationSet(true);
        fadeInAnimation.addAnimation(new TranslateAnimation(0.15f * parentView.getWidth(), 0, parentView.getHeight() / 2.5f, 0));
        fadeInAnimation.addAnimation(new AlphaAnimation(0, 1));
        fadeInAnimation.addAnimation(new ScaleAnimation(0.7f, 1.0f, 0.7f, 1.0f));
        fadeInAnimation.setDuration(2000);
        fadeInAnimation.setInterpolator(new DecelerateInterpolator(1f));

        contentView.startAnimation(fadeInAnimation);
    }

    //Allows to set rules and behavior for custom Rich Media close animation
    @Override
    public void closeAnimation(View contentView, View parentView, Animation.AnimationListener endAnimationListener) {
        // !IMPORTANT!
        // endAnimationListener has to be added to your custom animation to let Pushwoosh SDK handle animation end event
        AlphaAnimation alphaAnimation = new AlphaAnimation(1, 0);
        alphaAnimation.setDuration(2000);
        alphaAnimation.setAnimationListener(endAnimationListener);
        alphaAnimation.setFillEnabled(true);
        alphaAnimation.setFillAfter(true);

        contentView.animate().translationY(parentView.getHeight() / 5).setDuration(250).start();

        parentView.startAnimation(alphaAnimation);
    }
});

Custom loading view

Catch user attention from the first seconds with customized loading view of your In-App Messages.

iOS

1) Use loadingViewBlock as follows:

style.loadingViewBlock = ^PWLoadingView *{
    return [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"LoadingView" owner:self options:nil] lastObject];
};

2) “LoadingView” here must inherit from PWLoadingView (defined in PWRichMediaStyle.h):

3) Set outlets:

Android

RichMediaStyle.LoadingViewCreatorInterface implements a method that returns a View to be used as a loading screen for Rich Media:

richMediaStyle.setLoadingViewCreator(() -> {
  View screenView = createYourScreenView();
  return screenView;
});

Close button enabling delay

Make sure the In-App Message is shown to users by disabling close button until the Rich Media is loaded.

iOS

style.closeButtonPresentingDelay = 3;

Android

// set a value in milliseconds
richMediaStyle.setTimeOutBackButtonEnable(3000);