So I have this text on the java-side that arrives from an Intent
, which I'd like to save to AsyncStorage
to being able to access it through React afterwards.
Any chance I can achieve this?
I have:
package com.myapp;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.content.Intent;
import com.facebook.react.LifecycleState;
import com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager;
import com.facebook.react.ReactRootView;
import com.facebook.react.modules.core.DefaultHardwareBackBtnHandler;
import com.facebook.react.shell.MainReactPackage;
import com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader;
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements DefaultHardwareBackBtnHandler {
private ReactInstanceManager mReactInstanceManager;
private ReactRootView mReactRootView;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mReactRootView = new ReactRootView(this);
mReactInstanceManager = ReactInstanceManager.builder()
.setApplication(getApplication())
.setBundleAssetName("index.android.bundle")
.setJSMainModuleName("index.android")
.addPackage(new MainReactPackage())
.setUseDeveloperSupport(BuildConfig.DEBUG)
.setInitialLifecycleState(LifecycleState.RESUMED)
.build();
mReactRootView.startReactApplication(mReactInstanceManager, "BrowseItLater", null);
setContentView(mReactRootView);
// This code is from http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/receive.html
Intent intent = getIntent();
String action = intent.getAction();
String type = intent.getType();
if (Intent.ACTION_SEND.equals(action) && type != null) {
handleSendText(intent);
}
}
void handleSendText(Intent intent) {
String sharedText = intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);
if (sharedText != null) {
// How can I handle this ????
}
}
// ...
}
Or is there any other solution to make MainActivity.java
communicate with JS?
After quite some fight I finally found a solution. It doesn't use AsyncStorage
as I read in the source code AsyncStorage could actually be located differently (SQLite, or something else) depending on the phone. Would be dirty to duplicate this logic.
Instead, I created a module like the doc suggests and passed the inputText
as an argument to the .addPackage(new EphemeralStoragePackage(inputText))
call in MainActivity.java
.
The module exposes a method readOnceAsync
to the JS world, which I can later call with:
NativeModules.EphemeralStorage.readOnceAsync((text :string) => {
if (text.length) {
this._addValue(text); // this method is in charge of storing in AsyncStorage
}
})
Here's the detail:
// android/app/src/main/java/com/appname/modules/ephemeralstorage/EphemeralStorageModule.java
package com.browseitlater.modules.ephemeralstorage;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.NativeModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContext;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContextBaseJavaModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactMethod;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback;
import java.util.Map;
public class EphemeralStorageModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule {
private String inputText;
public EphemeralStorageModule(ReactApplicationContext reactContext, String _inputText) {
super(reactContext);
this.inputText = _inputText;
}
@Override
public String getName() {
return "EphemeralStorage";
}
public String getInputText() {
return inputText;
}
@ReactMethod
public void readOnceAsync(Callback successCallback) {
successCallback.invoke(getInputText());
this.inputText = null;
}
}
And
// android/app/src/main/java/com/appname/modules/ephemeralstorage/EphemeralStoragePackage.java
package com.browseitlater.modules.ephemeralstorage;
import android.app.Activity;
import java.util.*;
import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaScriptModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.NativeModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext;
import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager;
public class EphemeralStoragePackage implements ReactPackage {
private String inputText;
public EphemeralStoragePackage(String _inputText) {
super();
this.inputText = _inputText;
}
@Override
public List<NativeModule> createNativeModules(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
List<NativeModule> modules = new ArrayList<>();
modules.add(new EphemeralStorageModule(reactContext, getInputText()));
return modules;
}
@Override
public List<Class<? extends JavaScriptModule>> createJSModules() {
return Collections.emptyList();
}
@Override
public List<ViewManager> createViewManagers(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
return Collections.emptyList();
}
public String getInputText() {
return inputText;
}
}
Finally in MainActivity.java
, my onCreate
method looks like:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mReactRootView = new ReactRootView(this);
Intent intent = getIntent();
String action = intent.getAction();
String type = intent.getType();
String inputText = intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);
mReactInstanceManager = ReactInstanceManager.builder()
.setApplication(getApplication())
.setBundleAssetName("index.android.bundle")
.setJSMainModuleName("index.android")
.addPackage(new MainReactPackage())
.addPackage(new EphemeralStoragePackage(inputText))
.setUseDeveloperSupport(BuildConfig.DEBUG)
.setInitialLifecycleState(LifecycleState.RESUMED)
.build();
mReactRootView.startReactApplication(mReactInstanceManager, "BrowseItLater", null);
setContentView(mReactRootView);
}
If you don't want to write a native module, you can do this in MainActivity.java
Declare a global variable inside MainActivity class (don't forget to import com.facebook.react.modules.storage.ReactDatabaseSupplier
):
private ReactDatabaseSupplier mReactDatabaseSupplier;
Inside onCreate
method initialize the global variable:
mReactDatabaseSupplier = ReactDatabaseSupplier.getInstance(getApplicationContext());
Declare a private method to save the key/value pair inside AsyncStorage
private void saveKeyValuePair(String key, String value) {
String sql = "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO catalystLocalStorage VALUES (?, ?);";
SQLiteStatement statement = mReactDatabaseSupplier.get().compileStatement(sql);
try {
mReactDatabaseSupplier.get().beginTransaction();
statement.clearBindings();
statement.bindString(1, key);
statement.bindString(2, value);
statement.execute();
mReactDatabaseSupplier.get().setTransactionSuccessful();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.w("YOUR_TAG", e.getMessage(), e);
} finally {
try {
mReactDatabaseSupplier.get().endTransaction();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.w("YOUR_TAG", e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
}
Then you can save key/value pairs like this (inside onCreate
, for example):
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mReactDatabaseSupplier = ReactDatabaseSupplier.getInstance(getApplicationContext());
saveKeyValuePair("myAsyncStorageKey", "myValueInAsyncStorageKey");
}
This is a simple way to save in AsyncStorage
of a React Native application. Consider writing a native module.