react-native-flyover

A simple React Native native flyover for invoking Activity.startActivityForResult, Activity.setResult, and Activity.finish to help with implementing app-to-app communication.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-flyover --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-flyover

Manual installation

Android

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

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

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

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

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

     compile project(':react-native-flyover')
   

Usage

import FlyOver from 'react-native-flyover';
 
// Check if an app is installed to handle an intent
const flyover = await FlyOver.resolveFlyOver('com.kashish.TARGET_INTENT');
if (!flyover) {
    console.warn('Please install the othe app.');
} else {
    console.log(`Activity will be handled by ${activity.package}`);
}
 
// naked startActivity replacement
 
FlyOver.startFlyOver('com.kashish.TARGET_INTENT', args);
 
// Start an activity for a result
let uniqueId = 0;
let args = /* ... */;
const response = await FlyOver.startFlyOverForResult(++uniqueId, 'com.kashish.TARGET_INTENT', args);
if (response.resultCode !== FlyOver.OK) {
  throw new Error('Invalid result from activity.');
} else {
  console.log('Got the following response: ' + response.data);
}
 
// Finish an activity with a result
KFlyOver.destroyFlyOver(FlyOver.OK, 'com.kashish.TARGET_INTENT', args);