- React Native Bluetooth Serial Next 🙂
- Table of Contents
- Getting started
- Manual Installation
- iOS
- Android
- Example
- API References
- Device object
- Service object
- High order component
- withSubscription( options : Object ) : React.Component
- Methods
- Bluetooth adapter
- Device pairing
- Device connection
- Device IO
- Device buffer
- Service declaration for iOS
- Multiple devices connection
- device( id? : String ) : Object
- Events
- Types
React Native Bluetooth Serial Next 🙂
React Native version of BluetoothSerial plugin for both Android and iOS. Pulled from React Native Bluetooth Serial.
For iOS, this module now support service declaration, by default, those services are Read Bear Lab, Adafruit BLE, Bluegiga, Laird Virtual Serial Port, and Rongta.
Table of Contents
Getting started
npm install react-native-bluetooth-serial-next --save react-native link react-native-bluetooth-serial-next
For Android, you need to put the following code to AndroidManifest.xml in android/app/src/main at your project root folder.
uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" /> uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" /> uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
Manual Installation
iOS
- npm install react-native-bluetooth-serial-next —save
- In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project’s name]
- Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-bluetooth-serial-next and add RCTBluetoothSerial.xcodeproj
- In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRCTBluetoothSerial.a to your project’s Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
- Click RCTBluetoothSerial.xcodeproj in the project navigator and go the Build Settings tab. Make sure ‘All’ is toggled on (instead of ‘Basic’). In the Search Paths section, look for Header Search Paths and make sure it contains both $(SRCROOT)/../../react-native/React and $(SRCROOT)/../../../React — mark both as recursive .
- Run your project ( Cmd+R )
Android
- npm install react-native-bluetooth-serial-next —save
- Open up android/app/src/main/java/[. ]/MainActivity.java or MainApplication.java for React Native >= 0.29
- Add import com.nuttawutmalee.RCTBluetoothSerial.*; to the imports at the top of the file
- Add new RCTBluetoothSerialPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
- Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle
include ':react-native-bluetooth-serial-next' project(':react-native-bluetooth-serial-next').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-bluetooth-serial-next/android')
compile project(':react-native-bluetooth-serial-next')
Example
- git clone https://github.com/nuttawutmalee/react-native-bluetooth-serial-next.git
- cd react-native-bluetooth-serial-next/example
- npm install && npm link ../
- npm start
- react-native run-ios or react-native run-android
API References
Device object
This is basically the result object from API methods depending on operation system.
id: '111-111-111-111', uuid: '111-111-111-111', name: 'Bluetooth Printer', rssi: 'This field might not be present in the object', >
id: '111-111-111-111', address: '111-111-111-111', name: 'Bluetooth Printer', class: 'This field might not be present in the object', >
Service object
name: 'This field might not be present in the object', service: 'BLE service UUID string', read: 'BLE read characteristic UUID string', write: 'BLE write characteristic UUID string', >
High order component
withSubscription( options : Object ) : React.Component
This method will create an event listener and send it though as a component prop and it will remove all event listeners on componentWillUnmount as well.
- options : Object
- subscriptionName : String = ‘subscription’ The event listener prop name.
- destroyOnWillUnmount : Boolean = true Should event listeners remove all listeners and subscription
class MyComponent extends React.Component . > export default withSubscription( subscriptionName: 'events', destroyOnWillUnmount: true, >)(MyComponent);
Methods
Bluetooth adapter
requestEnable() : Promise
Prompts the application device to enable bluetooth adapter.
- For iOS, this method will throw an error.
- For Android, if the user does not enable bluetooth upon request, it will throw an error.
await BluetoothSerial.requestEnable();
enable() : Promise
Enable bluetooth adapter service.
await BluetoothSerial.enable();
disable() : Promise
Disable bluetooth adapter service.
await BluetoothSerial.disable();
isEnabled() : Promise
Indicates bluetooth adapter service status.
const isEnabled = await BluetoothSerial.isEnabled();
list() : Promise
List all paired (Android) or connected (iOS) bluetooth devices.
const devices = await BluetoothSerial.list();
listUnpaired() : Promise
| discoverUnpairedDevices() : Promise List all unpaired bluetooth devices.
const devices = await BluetoothSerial.listUnpaired(); const devices = await BluetoothSerial.discoverUnpairedDevices();
cancelDiscovery() : Promise | stopScanning() : Promise
Cancel bluetooth device discovery process.
await BluetoothSerial.cancelDiscovery(); await BluetoothSerial.stopScanning();
setAdapterName( name : String ) : Promise
Give bluetooth adapter a new name.
const newName = await BluetoothSerial.setAdapterName("New Adapter Name");
Device pairing
pairDevice( id : String ) : Promise
Pair with a bluetooth device.
const device = await BluetoothSerial.pairDevice(id);
unpairDevice( id : String ) : Promise
Unpair from a bluetooth device.
const device = await BluetoothSerial.unpairDevice(id);
Device connection
connect( id : String ): Promise
Connect to a specific bluetooth device.
const device = await BluetoothSerial.connect(id);
disconnect( id? : String ) : Promise
Disconnect from the specific connected bluetooth device. If id is omitted, the first connected device will be disconnected.
await BluetoothSerial.disconnect();
disconnectAll() : Promise
Disconnect all connected bluetooth devices.
await BluetoothSerial.disconnectAll();
isConnected( id? : String ) : Promise
Indicates the specific connected bluetooth device connection status. If id is omitted, it will return the connection status of the first connected device.
const isConnected = await BluetoothSerial.isConnected();
Device IO
read( callback : Function , delimiter? : String , id? : String ) : void
Listen and read data from the selected or first connected device.
BluetoothSerial.read((data, subscription) => console.log(data); if (this.imBoredNow && subscription) BluetoothSerial.removeSubscription(subscription); > >, "\r\n");
readOnce( delimiter? : String , id? : String ) : Promise
Read data from the selected or first connected device once.
const data = await BluetoothSerial.readOnce("\r\n");
readEvery( callback : Function , ms? : Number , delimiter? : String , id? : String ) : void
Read data from the selected or first connected device every n ms.
BluetoothSerial.readEvery( (data, intervalId) => console.log(data); if (this.imBoredNow && intervalId) clearInterval(intervalId); > >, 5000, "\r\n" );
readFromDevice( id? : String ) : Promise
Read all buffer data from the selected or first connected device.
const data = await BluetoothSerial.readFromDevice();
readUntilDelimiter( delimiter : String , id? : String ) : Promise
Read all buffer data up to certain delimiter from the selected or first connected device.
const data = await BluetoothSerial.readUntilDelimiter("\r\n");
write( data : Buffer | String , id? : String ) : Promise
Write buffer or string to the selected or first connected device.
await BluetoothSerial.write("This is the test message");
writeToDevice( data : String , id? : String ) : Promise
Write string to the selected or first connected device.
await BluetoothSerial.writeToDevice("This is the test message");
Device buffer
clear( id? : String ) : Promise
Clear all buffer data of the selected or first connected device.
await BluetoothSerial.clear();
available( id? : String ) : Promise
Get length of current buffer data of the selected or first connected device.
const bufferLength = await BluetoothSerial.available();
withDelimiter( delimiter : String , id? : String ) : Promise
Set delimiter that will split the buffer data when you are reading from device.
const deviceId = await BluetoothSerial.withDelimiter("\r\n");
Service declaration for iOS
You can get the default services which are Read Bear Lab, Adafruit BLE, Bluegiga, Laird Virtual Serial Port, and Rongta via BluetoothSerial.DEFAULT_SERVICES array.
setServices( services : Service[] , includeDefaultServices? : Boolean ) : Promise
Set custom bluetooth services for filtering out the specific protocols that you need.
- For Android, this method has no effect and will return empty array.
- services : Service[] Array of custom service object; each of them must have service , read , and write key-value.
- includeDefaultServices? : Boolean = true Should we include BluetoothSerial.DEFAULT_SERVICES in the services array?
const updatedServices = await BluetoothSerial.setServices([ name: 'Custom Bluetooth Service', service: '111-111-111-111-111-111', read: '111-111-111-111-111-111', write: '111-111-111-111-111-111', ], false);
getServices() : Promise
const currentServices = await BluetoothSerial.getServices();
restoreServices() : Promise
Restore services and set them to default services ( BluetoothSerial.DEFAULT_SERVICES .)
const services = await BluetoothSerial.restoreServices();
Multiple devices connection
This module supports multiple devices connection, as you can see in API Methods, most of the connection, IO, and buffer methods have id parameter that you can pass and specify which bluetooth device that you want to control.
However, to keep it clean and simple, you can use the following method to simplify them.
device( id? : String ) : Object
This method gives the ability to call group of API methods instead of pass id parameter at the end of each methods.
The followings are group of methods that you can use with this method.
- connect
- disconnect
- isConnected
- clear
- available
- withDelimiter
- read
- readOnce
- readEvery
- readUntilDelimiter
- readFromDevice
- write
- writeToDevice
const myDevice = BluetoothSerial.device(myId); const yourDevice = BluetoothSerial.device(yourId); await myDevice.connect(); await myDevice.write('This is a message for my device.'); let yourReadSubscription; await yourDevice.connect(); await yourDevice.read((data, subscription) => yourReadSubscription = subscription; console.log('Your data:', data); if (/** */ ) BluetoothSerial.removeSubscription(subscription); yourReadSubscription = null; > >); await myDevice.disconnect(); if (yourReadSubscription) BluetoothSerial.removeSubscription(yourReadSubscription); > await yourDevice.disconnect();
Events
Types
- bluetoothEnabled : When bluetooth adapter is turned on.
- bluetoothDisabled : When bluetooth adapter is turned off.
- connectionSuccess : When device is connected. You get object of message and device.