react-native-kontaktio

Cross-platform React Native module for detecting beacons with Android and iOS devices.

Kontakt.io SDK Versions of newest release:

OS	SDK Version
Android	5.0.25-pre-31
iOS	3.0.4

Advantages

• Works with any beacon (because the Kontakt.io SDK wraps the native beacon libraries (while adding more) - no Kontakt.io SDK API key is necessary.
• Especially useful with Kontakt.io beacons because additional information like the unique id (on the back of each beacon), the battery power level and others are available and get synchronized with your Kontakt.io online panel.
• Highly customizable configurations (e.g. for setting arbitrary monitoring intervals on Android)

Setup

• Android Setup
• iOS Setup

API Documentation

• Android Documentation
• iOS Documentation

Examples

Extensive Example

• Android extensive Example
• iOS extensive Example

Minimal Example

A minimal example (created with React Native v0.61) with the default configuration and no specifically set regions. Thus, the default region everywhere (i.e. all beacons) is automatically used. Make sure to follow the setup instructions carefully for iOS and Android and check the React Native logs to see console statements containing incoming beacon signals.

import React, {useEffect} from 'react';
import {
  Alert,
  DeviceEventEmitter,
  NativeEventEmitter,
  Platform,
  PermissionsAndroid,
  SafeAreaView,
  StatusBar,
  Text,
} from 'react-native';

import Kontakt, {KontaktModule} from 'react-native-kontaktio';
const {connect, init, startDiscovery, startScanning} = Kontakt;

const kontaktEmitter = new NativeEventEmitter(KontaktModule);

const isAndroid = Platform.OS === 'android';

/**
 * Android Marshmallow (6.0) and above need to ask the user to grant certain permissions.
 * This function does just that.
 */
const requestLocationPermission = async () => {
  try {
    const granted = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
      PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION,
      {
        title: 'Location Permission',
        message:
          'This example app needs to access your location in order to use bluetooth beacons.',
        buttonNeutral: 'Ask Me Later',
        buttonNegative: 'Cancel',
        buttonPositive: 'OK',
      },
    );
    if (granted === PermissionsAndroid.RESULTS.GRANTED) {
      return true;
    } else {
      // permission denied
      return false;
    }
  } catch (err) {
    console.warn(err);
    return false;
  }
};

const beaconSetup = async () => {
  if (isAndroid) {
    // Android
    const granted = await requestLocationPermission();
    if (granted) {
      await connect();
      await startScanning();
    } else {
      Alert.alert(
        'Permission error',
        'Location permission not granted. Cannot scan for beacons',
        [{text: 'OK', onPress: () => console.log('OK Pressed')}],
        {cancelable: false},
      );
    }
  } else {
    // iOS
    await init();
    await startDiscovery();
  }

  // Add beacon listener
  if (isAndroid) {
    DeviceEventEmitter.addListener('beaconsDidUpdate', ({beacons, region}) => {
      console.log('beaconsDidUpdate', beacons, region);
    });
  } else {
    kontaktEmitter.addListener('didDiscoverDevices', ({beacons}) => {
      console.log('didDiscoverDevices', beacons);
    });
  }
};

const App: () => React$Node = () => {
  useEffect(() => {
    beaconSetup();
  }, []);

  return (
    <>
      <StatusBar barStyle="dark-content" />
      <SafeAreaView>
        <Text>react-native-kontaktio Example</Text>
      </SafeAreaView>
    </>
  );
};

export default App;

Run Example to test the module

1. Go to the Getting Started section of the React Native docs and select the React Native CLI Quickstart tab (bluetooth is not yet supported by Expo).
2. Run the app to verify everything works (react-native run-android or react-native run-ios)
3. Copy the Minimal Example code from above into the App.js file which got created.

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Note (March 2020): The example in the Example/ folder is a bit outdated. If you want to try to run the example app anyway, here are some instructions to do so:

1. Clone this repository, connect an Android and/or Apple device to your computer and have some (Kontakt.io) beacons nearby.

2. Open a terminal window, bash to the Example/ folder, run npm install and start the react-native server

   $ cd react-native-kontaktio/Example
   $ npm install
   $ npm start
   

3. Build the example and run it on your device. The app will appear under the name KontaktIoSimpleTest:

   • Android:

     $ react-native run-android
     

   • iOS

     $ react-native run-ios
     

Further notes

• Beacons support is part of Android versions 4.3 and up. * So far the lowest Android version this library was tested on was a device with Android 4.4.2.
• A physical device must be used for testing, at best some Kontakt.io beacons.

ToDo:

• Update Android Eddystone feature:

  • Add multiple Eddystone namespaces, i.e. add function setEddystoneNamespaces
  • Add Eddystone Frames Selection configuration option