React Native Get battery status / level Using Native Modules

I wrote my own IOS and Android classes to get the Battery Status. Here are the steps if any one interested on that,

For IOS,

  1. Open the iOS project in XCode
  2. Create 2 new files call BatteryStatus.h and BatteryStatus.m

BatteryStatus.h file should contain following code

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <React/RCTBridgeModule.h>
#import <React/RCTEventEmitter.h>

@interface BatteryStatus : RCTEventEmitter <RCTBridgeModule>
@end

BatteryStatus.m file should

#import "BatteryStatus.h"

@implementation BatteryStatus
RCT_EXPORT_MODULE(BatteryStatus)

- (instancetype)init
{
 if ((self = [super init])) {

   [[UIDevice currentDevice] setBatteryMonitoringEnabled:YES];

 }
 return self;
}

RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(hide) {
}

RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(updateBatteryLevel:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback)
{
 callback(@[[self getBatteryStatus]]);
}

 //manually get battery status by calling following method

-(NSDictionary*)getBatteryStatus
{

 float batteryLevel = [UIDevice currentDevice].batteryLevel;

 NSObject* currentLevel = nil;

 currentLevel = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:(batteryLevel * 100)];

 NSMutableDictionary* batteryData = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:2];

 [batteryData setObject:currentLevel forKey:@"level"];
 return batteryData;

  }

@end
  1. Inside your react native app, inside your js file add following code

    import { NativeModules } from 'react-native';
    
    constructor(props) {
     super(props);
     this.state = {
     batteryLevel: null,
     };
    }
    
    componentDidMount() {
      NativeModules.BatteryStatus.updateBatteryLevel((info) => {
      //console.log(info.level)
      const level = Math.ceil(info.level);
      this.setState({ batteryLevel: level});
      });
    }
    

For IOS above code is working for me to get the battery level

For Android,

  1. Open the Android project in Android Studio
  2. Create a group call BatteryStatus and include 2 Files named , BatteryStatusModule.java and BatteryStatusPackage.java

BatteryStatusModule.java Should contain following code

package com.yourproject.BatteryStatus;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.os.BatteryManager;

import com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContextBaseJavaModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactMethod;

public class BatteryStatusModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule  {
     public BatteryStatusModule(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {

         super(reactContext);
     }

     @Override
     public String getName() {
    return "BatteryStatus";
}

@ReactMethod
public void getBatteryStatus(Callback successCallback) {
    Intent batteryIntent = getCurrentActivity().registerReceiver(null, new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED));
    int level = batteryIntent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL, -1);
    int scale = batteryIntent.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_SCALE, -1);

    if(level == -1 || scale == -1) {
        level = 0;
    }
    //System.out.print("battery level");
    //System.out.print(level);
    successCallback.invoke(null ,((float)level / (float)scale) * 100.0f);
    }
 }

BatteryStatusPackage.java should contain following code

 package com.yourproject.BatteryStatus;

 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;

 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;

 public class BatteryStatusPackage implements ReactPackage {
@Override
public List<NativeModule> createNativeModules(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
    List<NativeModule> modules = new ArrayList<>();

    modules.add(new BatteryStatusModule(reactContext));

    return modules;
}

@Override
public List<Class<? extends JavaScriptModule>> createJSModules() {
    return Collections.emptyList();
}

@Override
public List<ViewManager> createViewManagers(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
    return Collections.emptyList();
}
}
  1. Inside MainApplication.java include following code

    @Override
    protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
      return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
          new MainReactPackage(),
            new MapsPackage(),
            new BatteryStatusPackage()
      );
    }
    
  2. Inside your react native app, inside your js file add following code

     import { NativeModules } from 'react-native';
    
     constructor(props) {
     super(props);
    
     this.state = {
       batteryLevel: null
     };
    }
    
    getBatteryLevel = (callback) => {
       NativeModules.BatteryStatus.getBatteryStatus(callback);
    }
    

6.Call it something like this:

componentDidMount() {
 this.getBatteryLevel((batteryLevel) => {
   console.log(batteryLevel);
 });
}

For Android above code is working for me to get the battery level

Hope this will help some one to get battery level for IOS and ANDROID


We can use react-native-device-info for getting any device's specific information.

Install with command

npm install --save react-native-device-info

Get the battery level of the device as a float comprised between 0 and 1 with getBatteryLevel().

DeviceInfo.getBatteryLevel().then(batteryLevel => {
  // 0.759999
});

Note:

Returns -1 on the iOS Simulator