Customisable "Permission" descriptions
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Alex Russell
When building
native
native apps you generally have the ability to add in custom descriptions for things like location use or camera use, etc.I'm not overly au fait with the Android side of things as I have been fussing on iOS for now, but I did manage to find a way to do what I want and keep the Expo builds - in the
ios
key in app.json
there's the infoPlist
key (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/configuration.html#infoplist) where you just add arbitrary Info.plist
stuff. So I managed to do what I wanted there. However, it would be arguably more useful to be able to do this in a more officially supported way, and, if Android also supports descriptions for these features, make it more cross-platform, like the Permissions API itself.Brent Vatne
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Jesper Madsen
Existing issue on Github, seems to be included in SDK24.
https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/1062
Brent Vatne
Jesper Madsen: yup! more info in docs! https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/app-stores.html#system-permissions-dialogs-on-ios
Jesper Madsen
I think this should perhaps be a high priority task Brent Vatne, seeing Apple now apparently rejects apps on iOS for missing customization of the permission description.
I have had other Expo apps approved in spite of this, but c'est la vie with Apple app review :-/
Thanks @Alex Russell for the plist tip, did not know about that