react-native-app-quick-actions

ReactNative App Quick Actions for Android & iOS. Inspired by Expo Quick Actions & react-native-actions-shortcuts. Supports both Old (Native Module) and New (Turbo Module) Architecture of ReactNative

Installation

yarn install react-native-app-quick-actions

or

npm install react-native-app-quick-actions

iOS

iOS Requires one additional step to capture the quick action data when app is launched with a quick action. In the AppDelegate.m or AppDelegate.mm file of the integrating project, below code needs to be placed.

#import "AppQuickActions.h"

-(void)application:(UIApplication *)application performActionForShortcutItem:(UIApplicationShortcutItem *)shortcutItem completionHandler:(void (^)(BOOL))completionHandler{
  [AppQuickActions performActionForQuickActionItem:shortcutItem completionHandler:completionHandler];
}

Android

No specific setup required

Summary

API

method	Description
setQuickActions	sets the quick actions
getQuickActions	gets the current quick actions
clearQuickActions	clears existing quick actions

QuickActionItem

Key	Android	iOS	Description
type	✅	✅	unique string for the quick action
title	✅	✅	title string for the quick action
shortTitle	✅	❌	shortTitle string which will be shown when there is space constraint in Android
subtitle	❌	✅	subtitle string which will be shown below title in iOS
iconName	✅	✅	iconName string
data	✅	✅	object to have user defined values

Usage

import

import AppQuickActions from 'react-native-app-quick-actions';

you can also import the QuickActionItem type if working with typescript for defining the Quick Action Item.

import AppQuickActions, { type QuickActionItem } from 'react-native-app-quick-actions';

setQuickActions

const quickActionItems = [
  {
    type: 'com.quickactions1',
    title: 'Quick Action 1',
    subtitle: 'Simple Quick Action',
    iconName: 'shortcut',
    data: {
      link: '/test',
    },
  },
  {
    type: 'com.quickactions2',
    title: 'Quick Action 2',
    data: {
      link: '/test2',
    },
  },
];

useEffect(() => {
  AppQuickActions.setQuickActions(quickActionItems).then((items) => {
    console.log(`---> Quick Action Items Set: ${JSON.stringify(items)}`);
  });
}, []);

getQuickActions

AppQuickActions.getQuickActions().then((items) =>
  console.log(`---> Current Quick Action Items: ${JSON.stringify(items)}`)
);

getInitialQuickAction

AppQuickActions.getInitialQuickAction().then((item) =>
  console.log(`---> App Launched with QUick Action: ${JSON.stringify(item)}`)
);

When app launched with quick action this method can be used besides listening for event. On iOS subsequent calls to this method will result in null.

clearQuickActions

AppQuickActions.clearQuickActions();

Listen for events

useEffect(() => {
  const eventEmitter = new NativeEventEmitter(AppQuickActions);
  const sub = eventEmitter.addListener(
    'onQuickActionItemPressed',
    ({ item, initial }) => {
      const { type, data } = item;
      console.log(
        `---> Quick Action Item Clicked type:${type}, data:${JSON.stringify(data)}, isInitial: ${initial}`
      );
    }
  );
  return () => sub.remove();
}, []);

Either the app is launched with a quick action or when the app is brought to foreground using a quick action, In both cases event is emitted and the initial flag is set accordingly in the callback.

Hooks

For convenience there is hook for handling quick action events.

useAppQuickActionHandler

useAppQuickActionHandler(({ item, initial }) => {
  const { type, data } = item;
  console.log(
    `---> Quick Action Item Clicked type:${type}, data:${JSON.stringify(data)}, isInitial: ${initial}`
  );
});

Icons

Android

Icons needs to be in drawables folder. For guidelines on shortcut icons you can follow this guide

iOS

Icons in iOS needs to be inside Asset Catalogue. For icon guidelines you can follow this guide

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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