react-native-permissions

Version 3.0.0, with iOS 14, Android 11 and Windows support 🎉

What's new

• Windows support (#530 by @bzoz)
• Android 11 support
• iOS 14 support added, iOS 9 support dropped
• Updated example app
• New iOS 14+ permission handler: Permission-PhotoLibraryAddOnly. It exposes a new method: openLimitedPhotoLibraryPicker (#510 by @jochem725)
• New iOS 14+ permission handler: Permission-LocationAccuracy. It exposes two new methods: checkLocationAccuracy & requestLocationAccuracy (#503 by @adapptor-kurt)
• Support of the new Limited status for PhotoLibrary permission (#510 by @jochem725)
• Support of the new Limited status for Notifications permission (=Ephemeral, (see Apple doc)

Breaking changes

1. .podspec extension is no longer required in your Podfile:

target 'YourAwesomeProject' do

  # …

  permissions_path = '../node_modules/react-native-permissions/ios'

- pod 'Permission-Calendars', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Calendars.podspec"
+ pod 'Permission-Calendars', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Calendars"
- pod 'Permission-Camera', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Camera.podspec"
+ pod 'Permission-Camera', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Camera"

  # …

end

2. request(PERMISSIONS.IOS.PHOTO_LIBRARY) and requestNotifications could now resolve with a RESULTS.LIMITED permission status.

Known issue

Updating the permission status to Ask me next time in your app settings will not update the permission status on Android 11 for now.

• Fallback UNAuthorizationStatusEphemeral (Notifications) and PHAuthorizationStatusLimited (PhotoLibrary) iOS 14 permission statuses to granted until proper support is done.

• Fix Xcode 12 compatibility (#519 by @Fetten)

• Support AppTrackingTransparency framework on iOS 14 (#501 by @sohail-dragon)

• Fix Bluetooth API MISUSE error on iOS 12 (Fix #464)

• Fix compatibility with TypeScript versions < 3.8.0 (#456 by @huntie)

• Don't reject with an error if FaceID is locked out (Fix #453)
• Improve test warning (#450 by @ghiculescu)

• Check granted status before blocked status on Android check (Fix #445)

• Add Permission-Notifications to permission handlers startup availability check (Fix #https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-permissions/issues/441#issuecomment-613339583)

• Add checkMultiple / requestMultiple methods (Fix #354, #435)
• Add unavailable and blocked check on check() calls (Fix #419)
• Disallow Bluetooth Peripheral request in iOS simulator
• Make Should be one of: () message more explicit (Fix #389)

• Avoid relying on shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale on Android
• Remove deprecated react-native link mentions in warnings (by @thymikee)
• Fix Android example project icons
• Add workarounds instructions for CocoaPods 1.9
• CMMotionActivityManager: Reduce requested activity time window to the maximum

• Prevent permission handlers being aggressively cleaned by ARC before resolving the request (#391 by @booker0108)

• FIx https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-permissions/issues/386: Broken TS types path

• Fix #335 & #347: Build fail in index.ts Unexpected token

• Fix checkNotifications / requestNotifications returning denied instead of blocked on Android (#382)

• Fix unexported Jest mock file (https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-permissions/issues/380)

• Add a Jest mock file
• Avoid return unavailable if bluetooth-peripheral is not set in UIBackgroundModes (fix #366)
• Add a new workaround about use_frameworks! in the documentation (#372 by @Dimon70007)

• Avoid return unavailable if location is not set in UIBackgroundModes to allow significant location tracking feature usage
• Add instructions about use_frameworks! in the documentation

• Fix named export of constants through index (#337 by @draperunner)

• Fix missing notifications permission pod with use_frameworks!(by @dungnguyen10989, fix #331)
• Fix location permissions requests on iOS 13 (fix #329)
• Split types out so module is easier to mock for testing (fix #324)
• Fix package.json homepage and repository url (fix #330)
• Add warnings about missing UIBackgroundModes