react-native-start-service

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-start-service --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-start-service

Manual installation

Android

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

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

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

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

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

    compile project(':react-native-start-service')

Usage

import RNStartService from 'react-native-start-service';

const result = await RNStartService.startAsync(
  'my.app',
  'my.app.MyService',
  'my.app.MY_ACTION',
  { myParam: 'myValue' }
);

const isInstalled = await RNStartService.isPackageInstalledAsync('my.app');

const isRunning = await RNStartService.isRunningServiceAsync('my.service');