viam_sdk 0.0.15

Viam Robotics Flutter SDK. Connect to your Viam robots using WebRTC or gRPC, and control your robots remotely.

Viam Flutter SDK

Build and connect to robots with Flutter

(In)stability Notice

Warning This is a beta release of the Viam Flutter SDK. No guarantees are made to the stability of the API. All changes will be enumerated in the release notes.

Getting started

Make sure your project meets the minimum requirements:

• Minimum iOS target: 13.0
• Minimum Android SDK: 23
• Kotlin version: 1.8.20

Installation

flutter pub add viam_sdk

Update Info.plist

If you are building for Apple platforms, you may have to update your app's Info.plist. NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription is needed to establish stable WebRTC connections, and NSBonjourServices is required to connect to local devices via mDNS.

<key>NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription</key>
<string>Viam requires access to your devices local network to connect to your devices.</string>
<key>NSBonjourServices</key>
<array>
    <string>_rpc._tcp</string>
</array>

Usage

You can use the Viam SDK to connect to an existing robot (to create a robot, view the documentation or try Viam).

import 'package:viam_sdk/viam_sdk.dart';

// Connect to an existing robot
// *NOTE* Get '<API KEY ID>' and '<API KEY>' from app.viam.com
final options = RobotClientOptions.withAPIKey('<API KEY ID>', '<API KEY>');
final robot = await RobotClient.atAddress('<LOCATION>', options);

// Print the available resources
print(robot.resourceNames);

// Access a component
final movementSensor = MovementSensor.fromRobot(robot, 'my_sensor');
print(await movementSensor.readings())

Example app

View the sample app in the /example directory to see a more in-depth example.

GitHub

You can view the code for the Viam Flutter SDK on GitHub.

License

Copyright 2021-2023 Viam Inc.

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE file