Attach Extended Printer service

This is an extension to Gluon Attach, the component that addresses the integration with low-level platform APIs in an end-to-end Java Mobile solution, providing Bluetooth printer services on Android.

Building Attach Extended Printer

Requisites

These are the requisites:

• A recent version of JDK 11 or superior
• Gradle 6.0 or superior.
• Attach Util 4.0.12 or superior

To build the Android services:

• Android SDK and Android NDK (The GluonFX plugin installs both when building for Android)

Attach Documentation

Read about Attach: Device Interface

The section Building Attach contains more advanced information.

How to build and install Attach Extended Printer

To build the Attach Extended Printer service on the project's root, run:

./gradlew clean build

If you want to install them, run:

./gradlew clean publishToMavenLocal

How to use Attach Extended Printer

The printer service can be added to a Gluon Mobile project like:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>Gluon</id>
        <url>https://nexus.gluonhq.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<!-- dependencies -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.gluonhq.attachextendedprinter</groupId>
    <artifactId>printer</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.gluonhq.attachextendedprinter</groupId>
    <artifactId>printer</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
    <classifier>android</classifier>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

and used from the project like:

PrinterService.create().ifPresent(service -> {
    if (!printer.deviceList().isEmpty()) {
        printer.print("something", printer.deviceList().get(0).getAddress(), 3000);
    }
});