How to add the AskSpot chat to a mobile app

What this does

A WebView shows a web page inside your native app. By pointing it at a small page that loads the AskSpot chat, your app users get the same assistant your website has – without a native SDK. You host one HTML file and reference it from the WebView.

Before you start

• Your AskSpot project ID and assistant ID (from AskSpot).
• Somewhere to host a small HTML file, and a WebView in your app.

Step 1 – Create the HTML page

Make a simple HTML page that loads the AskSpot embed script. Adding ?open=true opens the chat as soon as the page loads – which is usually what you want inside a WebView:

<script crossorigin="*" async src="https://chat.askspot.io/api/v1/integration/<your-project-id>/embed-script?open=true"></script>

Host this page somewhere you control.

Step 2 – Point your WebView at it

In your app, set the WebView’s URL to the page you just hosted. That is enough to show the chat in the app.

Step 3 – (Optional) Detect when the chat closes

If your app needs to react when the user closes the chat – for example to hide the WebView – listen for the chat_closed event:

AskWidget["<your-assistant-id>"].addEventListener("chat_closed", (event) => {
  console.log("chat closed", event);
});

This mobile setup is part of a custom integration – see that page for the full picture.