How to connect to an SSID from an app built with Expo and React Native?

Question

I want my app to be able to connect to a Wifi network whose SSID and password are already gonna be hardcoded in the app. Hope there is a way to do this in expo. I know I could use something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-wifi-reborn but probably do not want to eject out of expo.

Answer 1

Answering my own question here for anyone who's facing the same problem. With the latest Expo updates now we can add react-native packages to the managed expo workflow without ever ejecting. What that means is we can install https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-wifi-reborn to our Expo project.

We'll just be needing to install expo-dev-client to our project and then use EAS build. Consider reading this guide know the exact steps needed https://docs.expo.dev/development/getting-started/

I'm also planning to write a blog post around this, will update here as soon as it gets finished :)