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AppState

AppState can tell you if the app is in the foreground or background, and notify you when the state changes.

AppState is frequently used to determine the intent and proper behavior when handling push notifications.

App States

• active - The app is running in the foreground
• background - The app is running in the background. The user is either in another app or on the home screen
• inactive - This is a transition state that currently never happens for typical React Native apps.

For more information, see Apple's documentation

Basic Usage

To see the current state, you can check AppState.currentState, which will be kept up-to-date. However, currentState will be null at launch while AppState retrieves it over the bridge.

getInitialState: function() {
  return {
    currentAppState: AppState.currentState,
  };
},
componentDidMount: function() {
  AppState.addEventListener('change', this._handleAppStateChange);
},
componentWillUnmount: function() {
  AppState.removeEventListener('change', this._handleAppStateChange);
},
_handleAppStateChange: function(currentAppState) {
  this.setState({ currentAppState, });
},
render: function() {
  return (
    <Text>Current state is: {this.state.currentAppState}</Text>
  );
},

This example will only ever appear to say "Current state is: active" because the app is only visible to the user when in the active state, and the null state will happen only momentarily.

Methods

• addEventListener
• removeEventListener

Properties

• currentState

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Reference

Methods

addEventListener()

static addEventListener(type, handler)

Add a handler to AppState changes by listening to the change event type and providing the handler

Parameters:

Name	Type	Required	Description
type	string	Yes
handler	function	Yes

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removeEventListener()

static removeEventListener(type, handler)

Remove a handler by passing the change event type and the handler

Parameters:

Name	Type	Required	Description
type	string	Yes
handler	function	Yes

Properties

currentState

AppState.currentState;