react-native-car-connect

About

Detect when your phone connects or disconnects to your car (handsfree/bluetooth) Currently only working for iOS. Android will be available soon.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-car-connect --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-car-connect

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-car-connect and add CarConnect.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libCarConnect.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.CarConnectPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new CarConnectPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-car-connect'
   project(':react-native-car-connect').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-car-connect/android')
   

2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-car-connect')
   

Usage

import { useEffect } from "react";
import CarConnect from "react-native-car-connect";
import { NativeEventEmitter } from "react-native";
 
const CarEvents = new NativeEventEmitter(CarConnect);
 
function ConnectFunctionalComponent() {
  useEffect(
    () => {
      CarEvents.addListener("onConnect", res => {
        alert("Car connected state = ", res);
      });
      CarEvents.addListener("onDisconnect", res => {
        alert("Car disconnected state = ", res);
      });
      // pass in true to use background thread
      CarConnect.start(true);
      return () => {
        CarConnect.stop(true);
      };
    },
    [],
    []
  );
 
  return null;
}
 
// check if connected
console.log(CarConnect.connected);
 
// example usage with functional component
function App() {
  return <ConnectFunctionalComponent />;
}