react-native-common-intents

React Native Android Module's Android Common intents actions like for

Image picker from Gallery

Open date settings

Open settings page

Open wifi settings

Open Bluetooth settings

Open airplanemode settings

Open browser with input url

Make web search by entering text

Create alarm

Create timer

dial phone number

Create note

How this Module is useful ?

lets say you want to pick image from gallery and want to upload it, you want user to open wifi settings , date settings etc directly from your app , you want to load a web url in browser or you want to make some web search all these things can be achieved with this library as shown below.

Installation

npm install react-native-common-intents --save
or
yarn add react-native-common-intents

Add it to your android project

Automatic link:

react-native link react-native-common-intents  

Manual link:

• in android/app/build.gradle

  - dependencies {  
        implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules  
      
        + implementation project(':react-native-common-intents')  // <------ add this line to your build.gradle file
    } 
    
    
    
  

• in android/settings.gradle

include ':app'
// <------ add below two lines to your settings.gradle------>
+ include ':react-native-common-intents' // 
+ project(':react-native-common-intents').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-common-intents/android')// 

• in MainApplication.java

    @Override
   protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
     return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
         new MainReactPackage(),
           new IntentModulePackage() // <------ add this line to your MainApplication class
     );
   }

## Permissions

###### Add this to your AndroidManifest.xml

...
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW" />
   <uses-permission android:name="com.android.alarm.permission.SET_ALARM" />
 ...

## Import Library

import RNIntents from 'react-native-common-intents';

## Example/ Image Picker

RNIntents.ImagePicker Module has two arguments first one will give you the url of the
image that you will choose from gallery and 2nd argument will give you the error which may occur

RNIntents.ImagePicker(url => {
 console.log("image uri",url);
},(err) => {
 console.log("eeeoe",err);
});

Example/ open Web Page

RNIntents.openWeb("https://google.com");

Example/ Perform Web Search

RNIntents.performWebSearch("Winter is coming");

Example/ Open Settings Page

RNIntents.openSettings();

Example/ Open DateSettings

RNIntents.openDateSettings();

Example/ Open WifiSettings

RNIntents.openWifiSettings();

Example/ open AirplaneModeSettings

RNIntents.openAirplaneModeSettings();

Example/ open BluetoothSettings

RNIntents.openBluetoothSettings();

Example/ Dial Phone Number

RNIntents.dialNumber("9086090860");

Example/ Start Timer

you can start a timer in background without opening app or with opening app based

on the boolean value passed as true or false

It takes 3 parameters Message as string , seconds as int , boolean value

RNIntents.startTimer(String message, int seconds,boolean value) 

Example/ Create alarm

It takes 3 parameters

Message as string , hours as int , minutes as int

RNIntents.createAlarm(String message, int hour, int minutes);

Example/ Create note

It takes 2 parameters

subject as string , text as string

RNIntents.createNote(subject,text);

Example

 
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {Platform, StyleSheet, Text, View, Button} from 'react-native';
import RNIntents from 'react-native-common-intents';
 
 
 
export default class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.welcome}>React-native-common-intents</Text>
        <Button  title =" pick image from gallery" onPress = {() => {
 
 
RNIntents.ImagePicker(url => {
  console.log("image uri",url);
},(err) => {
  console.log("error",err);
});
 
  }  
 
 
}  />
<Button title ="open Date settings" onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.openDateSettings();
}}/>
 
<Button title ="open Wifi settings" onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.openWifiSettings();
}}/>
 
<Button title ="open Airplanemode Settings " onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.openAirplaneModeSettings();
  console.log("hehehehe")
}}/>
 
<Button title ="open Bluetooth Settings " onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.openBluetoothSettings();
}}/>
<Button title ="open browser" onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.openWeb("http://zigtor.com");
}}/>
 
<Button title ="Perform web search " onPress = { () => {
  RNIntents.performWebSearch("Winter is coming");
}}/>
 
      </View>
    );
  }
}
 
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
  welcome: {
    fontSize: 20,
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 10,
  },
  instructions: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    color: '#333333',
    marginBottom: 5,
  },
});