Skip to main content
The Gameball SDK for iOS enables you to use the show Gameball customer profile in your app, track app customer events, integrate referrals and display Gameball’s in-app push notifications.

​
Installation

Follow the below steps to start installing the iOS SDK to your app

​
1. Add CocoaPods to Your Project

If your project is using CocoaPods, skip to the next part of this article, Add Gameball Pod.
1

Open Terminal

Open the terminal window and navigate to the root folder of your Xcode project
2

Initialize CocoaPods

Run the following command in terminal:
$ pod init
3

Open Workspace

Close Xcode if open then open your project’s newly created .xcworkspace
4

Verify Setup

Your project is now using CocoaPods to install dependencies

​
2. Add Gameball Pod

1

Update Podfile

Add the code below in your Podfile which was created by CocoaPods:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
target 'YourAppName' do
             use_frameworks!
             pod 'Gameball',
end
2

Install Dependencies

Navigate to your project’s root folder in a terminal window and run:
$ pod install
3

Verify Installation

Gameball will install several Pods that it has as dependencies.When the Pod command finishes execution, you will have Gameball installed and ready to use.

​
Swift Package Manager

Gameball is also available through Swift Package Manager. To install it, simply search for ‘Gameball’ or add the repo URL: 
https://github.com/gameballers/gameball-ios.git

​
Initialization

In order to use Gameball SDK, apply the below step into the created pod, using CocoaPods, to setup the Gameball Widget in the best way for your use-case.
1

Import Gameball

Import our pod to your viewController:
import Gameball
2

Create Global Variable

Create a global GameballApp variable in your viewController to access anywhere within your viewController:
var gameball: Gameball?
3

Initialize SDK

Then initialize it as the following:
gameball = Gameball(
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY", // The only required field
    lang: "ar",
    shop: "MyShop", // Required for Shopify clients only
    platform: "iOS",
    completion: { [weak self] in // Completion block when SDK init is completed
        guard let self = self else {return}
        // You can enable showing profile, registering player, etc. see next section
    }
)

​
Widget Parameters Description

​
APIKey
string
required
The API key of the Client account
​
lang
string
The language that the SDK should be initialized with (based on the Client’s configuration)
​
shop
string
Store name with myshopify.com domain. Used if your app is a mobile app for a Shopify store connected to Gameball
​
platform
string
The platform you application used:
  • Shopify
  • Salla
  • any
​
completion
closure
Completion block that gets called when the initialization of the SDK is completed
You may also check the sample project here to view full implementation.

​
Profile Languages

For websites with multiple languages, how you can change Gameball widget language based on active website language. Gameball supports multiple languages for the customer profile widget. The widget language can be changed based on your customer’s active language on the website.
Learn how you can configure the languages on your Gameball account through this article.

​
Supported Languages & Codes

In order to show the correct language of the widget based on the active language on the website, you just need to use the language code inside the lang variable in the code snippet.

​
Next Steps