feat(posthog): SDK needs to be initialized early to capture application lifecycle events in iOS

[djabif]

If the Posthog SDK is not initialized as soon as the app starts, there's an issue in iOS that lifecycle events such as Application Installed and Application Updated are not triggered.

With this change what I did is try to get the apiKey and host from capacitor.config.ts file and if the values are there then initialize the sdk when the plugin loads. If you do this then you don't need to call the setup function from your app's code.

In capacitor.config.ts inside your plugins object add:

Posthog: {
      apiKey: YOUR_API_KEY,
      host: YOUR_HOST  // if different from https://us.i.posthog.com
}

Disclaimer: this is my first time working with Capacitor plugins so maybe I'm missing something.

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[robingenz]

@djabif Thank you! I will take a look at it this week. 🙂

[djabif]

Thanks @robingenz !
Looking forward to it 😊
Please let me know if any change is required