Airplane mode detection

[vkhazin]

I am using expo sdk with a non-ejected application supporting ios and android.
Is there a way to detect an airplane mode enabled other than not having internet connection?
(Not having an internet connection can be an indication of a networking connectivity problem or a user action)

For react-native there is a module: GitHub - c19354837/react-native-system-setting: A library to access system setting, and change it easily. eg: volume, brightness, wifi
But as far as I understood, non-ejected application cannot make use of react-native add-on modules.

[charliecruzan]

Hey @vkhazin!

Right now, there isn’t a way of detecting whether airplane mode is enabled, but I will bring that up.

And you are correct, according to our docs, you’d have to eject to ExpoKit to use that module.

Thanks for bringing this up!

[vkhazin]

Thank you for your comments!

I was wondering on behalf of expo.io:

1. there is always a place for third party enhancements
2. what is the reason that expo.io cannot support native modules, would not it be a limiting factor to adoption?

[vkhazin]

@charliecruzan:

May I suggest to entertain a bill-per-usage model for the publish/compile runner minutes while keeping the service free, with no upfront commitment I would not mind shading a few dollars a month to support the development effort. As an example bitbucket gives away X number of free build minutes, AWS/GCP gives away 1M function as a service requests per month.

The reason, for me, is that I don’t like monthly billing when I may or may not need to use service, while I don’t mind paying low volume for aws, azure, and gcp services as a part of my development activities.

And, similarly, I would not mind contributing money to the team leveraging a subtle guiltware approach: guiltware - Wiktionary, few dollars from willing participants could help the team to pay for some expenses.