react-native-openanything

Open anything in your react-native app.

Supports call, email, text (sms), iMessage (iOS only), Map, PDF, etc.

Installation

React Native >= 0.49

npm install react-native-openanything

General Guide

This library is promise based and each method returns a promise.

    import {Call} from 'react-native-openanything';

    Call('+155555555555').catch(err => console.error(err));

Available Methods

Call a number from your app!

Call(phone, prompt = false)

Prop	Description	Default
`phone`	A string that represents the phone number to call.	Required
`prompt`	If set to true, it will ask the user for permission to call. `Only iOS`	`false`

Send an email from your app!

Email(to = false, subject = false, body = false, cc = false, bcc = false)

Parameter	Description	Default
`to`	A value that indicates the recipient e-mail. Can either be `string` for single recipient or an `array` for multiple recipients.	`false` `optional`
`subject`	A string for the subject for the e-mail.	`false` `optional`
`body`	A string for the body message for the e-mail.	`false` `optional`
`cc`	Same as `to` however the recipient(s) will be designated for the `cc` field.	`false` `optional`
`bcc`	Same as `to` however the recipient(s) will be designated for the `bcc` field.	`false` `optional`

Note: The default email application will be open even if no parameter is set.

Send an text (sms) from your app!

Text(phone, message = false, autoEncode = true)

Parameter	Description	Default
`phone`	A string that represents the phone number to call.	Required
`message`	A string for the message.	`false` `optional`
`autoEncode`	If set to true, the method will auto encode the message.	`true` `optional`

By default this method tries to properly encode the message however in same cases that might not work. If you have trouble just set the autoEncode parameter to false.

Note: If message is not a string, this method will open the default text client regardless.

Open any URL from your app!

Web(url)

Parameter	Description	Default
`url`	A string that represents the url.	Required

Displays a map from your app!

Map(address)

Parameter	Description	Default
`address`	A string that represents the address.	Required

Note: You can either provide an string or an array with latitude and longitude to this method.

Opens a YouTube Video

Youtube(video)

Parameter	Description	Default
`video`	A string that contains the Youtube video id.	Required

Opens Twitter

Twitter(user)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Twitter User Id that should be open.	Required

Opens Facebook

Facebook(user)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Facebook User Id that should be open.	Required

Opens Instagram User, Media, Camera, App, Location and Tag

Instagram(user)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Instagram User Id that should be open.	Required

InstagramMedia(media)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Instagram Media Id that should be open.	Required

InstagramLocation(location)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Instagram Location Id that should be open.	Required

InstagramTag(tag)

Parameter	Description	Default
`user`	A string that contains the Instagram Tag Id that should be open.	Required

InstagramApp()

Opens the Instagram App.

InstagramCamera()

Opens the Instagram Camera.

Only iOS Launch Facetime

Facetime(target, audioOnly = false)

Parameter	Description	Default
`target`	A string that representing a phone number or a username.	Required
`audioOnly`	A boolean value indicating if facetime is an audio call	`false` `optional`

Low level methods

Note: You should only use these methods if you know what you doing.

Supported - checks if a deep linking URL is supported on the current device.

Supported(url)

Parameter	Description	Default
`url`	The url to check.	Required

Open - opens an deep linking URL.

Open(url)

Parameter	Description	Default
`url`	The url to open.	Required

Launch - Combines Supported and Open

Launch(url)

Parameter	Description	Default
`url`	The url to verify and open.	Required

Issues and how to resolve them

App is not allowed to query scheme

On iOS you might run into this issue. The reaon is that you have to explicit add the requesting query schemes into the pinfo.list variable LSApplicationQueriesSchemes.

e.g. for Facebook you would add fb. Please refer to the example list below for the correct query scheme string:

Target	Query Scheme
Facebook	`fb`
Instagram	`instagram`
Twitter	`twitter`
LinkedIn	`linkedin`
WhatsApp	`whatsapp`

Examples

You can either import specific modules:

import { Call, Text, Web, Map, EMail } from 'react-native-openanything';

...

render() {

	<View>
    	<Button onPress={() => Call('+12105551234')}>
        	<Text>Call</Text>
        </Button>
        <Button onPress={() => Text('+12105551234', 'Can you please call me!')}>
        	<Text>Text</Text>
        </Button>
    </View>
}

or import all modules as wildcard:

import * as OpenAnything from 'react-native-openanything';

...

render() {

	<View>
    	<Button onPress={() => OpenAnything.Call('+12105551234')}>
        	<Text>Call</Text>
        </Button>
        <Button onPress={() => OpenAnything.Call('+12105551234', 'Can you please call me!')}>
        	<Text>Text</Text>
        </Button>
        <Button onPress={() => OpenAnything.Email('someone@google.com')}>
        	<Text>E-Mail</Text>
        </Button>
        <Button onPress={() => OpenAnything.Web('http://www.google.com')}>
        	<Text>Google Homepage</Text>
        </Button>
        <Button onPress={() => OpenAnything.Map('Google')}>
        	<Text>Google HQ</Text>
        </Button>
    </View>
}

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