react-native-idle-timer

react-native-idle-timer

A cross-platform bridge that allows you to enable and disable the screen idle timer in your React Native app

Install

npm install react-native-idle-timer@latest --save

Configure

with RNPM

rnpm link react-native-idle-timer

Manually

iOS

• In the XCode's "Project navigator", right click on your project's Libraries folder ➜ Add Files to <...>
• Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-idle-timer ➜ ios ➜ select RNIdleTimer.xcodeproj
• Add libRNIdleTimer.a to Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries

Android

• in android/settings.gradle

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

• in android/app/build.gradle add:

  dependencies {
      ...
      compile project(':react-native-idle-timer')
  }
  

• and finally, in android/src/main/java/com/{YOUR_APP_NAME}/MainActivity.java add:

  //...
  import com.marcshilling.idletimer.IdleTimerPackage;; // <--- This!
  
  //...
  @Override
  protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
    return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
      new MainReactPackage(),
      new IdleTimerPackage() // <---- and This!
    );
  

}

## Usage
1. In your React Native javascript code, bring in the native module:

```javascript
import IdleTimerManager from 'react-native-idle-timer';

• To disable the idle timer on a specific view component:

componentWillMount() {
  IdleTimerManager.setIdleTimerDisabled(true);
}

componentWillUnmount() {
  IdleTimerManager.setIdleTimerDisabled(false);
}