Disable and enable automatic event logging arcording to GDPR

[Hanspagh]

Hi.
I can see it is possible in the android and iOS sdk to disable and only after the user has consented then enable automatic event logging again, see the provided Link for more details.
Is this something that is also possible in the RN sdk?

[peteychuk]

Any updates on this?

[Hanspagh]

I ended up fixing it by editing the info.Plist and the android manifest of the facebook SDK as described here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/getting-started-app-events-android#disable-auto-events and then made a custom hook to enable them

[peteychuk]

Thank you @Hanspagh,
For IOS documentation described here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/getting-started-app-events-ios (Disable Automatically Logged Events)

UPD:
A related issue: #461

[obendevski]

Any updates regarding this?

[obendevski]

I ended up fixing it by editing the info.Plist and the android manifest of the facebook SDK as described here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/getting-started-app-events-android#disable-auto-events and then made a custom hook to enable them

Can you please tell me how you did it with the custom hook?

[Hanspagh]

@obendevski Its been a while, but it was something a long the lines of this
https://dev.to/evenmik/react-native-bridge-for-android-and-ios-405k
and then the native call was just to setAutoLogAppEventsEnabled(true)

[obendevski]

@obendevski Its been a while, but it was something a long the lines of this
https://dev.to/evenmik/react-native-bridge-for-android-and-ios-405k
and then the native call was just to setAutoLogAppEventsEnabled(true)

Great, thank you very much. Just one more thing, where do you import the setAutoLogAppEventsEnabled from ? I will need to install the separate sdks for android and iOS, right? Because I cant find any reference to the method in the react-native-fb-sdk.

[Hanspagh]

Yes, but I am also pretty sure, this is a requiment for the libary anyways

[stephanpavlovic]

@obendevski Its been a while, but it was something a long the lines of this
https://dev.to/evenmik/react-native-bridge-for-android-and-ios-405k
and then the native call was just to setAutoLogAppEventsEnabled(true)

Great, thank you very much. Just one more thing, where do you import the setAutoLogAppEventsEnabled from ? I will need to install the separate sdks for android and iOS, right? Because I cant find any reference to the method in the react-native-fb-sdk.

Did you pull it of @obendevski? I'm trying to do the exact same thing ...

[obendevski]

@stephanpavlovic I did it, yes. I will write it here ASAP, next few days.

[plaa]

@obendevski I am struggling with importing classes from the react-native-fbsdk libraries. How did you handle them?

I managed to get iOS working by adding #import <FBSDKCoreKit.h> to my Swift bridging header and then using Settings.isAutoLogAppEventsEnabled = enabled.

On Android I am unable to import com.facebook.FacebookSdk. It seems that the library is included through react-native-fbsdk, but is not on the classpath during build time. I even tried manually linking the package (only gradle files) but compiling still fails.

[obendevski]

Hey, @plaa , I had the same problem, had to add the android fbsdk.
In app/build.gradle add:
implementation 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:[5,6)'.
In android/build.gradle, add:
mavenCentral() in repositories.

Then, you can import com.facebook.FacebookSdk; in your custom module.
Hope it helps,
Let me know if it works!

[plaa]

Thanks @obendevski!

For me it was sufficient to add the implementation statement in app/build.gradle, the mavenCentral() was unnecessary. I guess the npm packages add that automatically, as it's not in my config. I had to exit + clean to get Android Studio to detect the library.

For those wondering, the implementation statement requires any 5.x version of facebook-android-sdk to be included in the build. The react-native-fbsdk npm package will decide the exact version that will be included.