React Native Android Permission Denied

Question

I am testing an app on Android 5.1.1 where the storage permission gets denied automatically. When I launch the app there is no prompt for giving permissions to the app. However, when I test the app on Android 6.0 and above with new android permissions model everything is working fine. How do I set the permissions correctly and get the permissions dialog box to prompt on app launch on android 5.0 and below?

Answer 1

I just hit this same issue on the location permission for android version 5.0.

This appears to be a bug in RN (we're using v0.44.0)

  const granted = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
    PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, {
      title: 'Enable Location Tracking',
      message: 'Use your location to find nearby things',
    },
  );

  if (granted === PermissionsAndroid.RESULTS.GRANTED) {
    return true;
  }

For some reason, on android 5.0, granted gets set to true, instead of "granted", which is what it gets set to on 6.0+.

I worked around it by changing

  if (granted === true || granted === PermissionsAndroid.RESULTS.GRANTED)