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I am trying to get react-native-permissions in my dev-client build of Expo to run. The build succeeds, but when I start the app, I am getting a relatively generic "No permission handler detected." error.

Research suggest that adding permissions to the ios/Podfile and making sure that ios/<appname>/Info.plist entries need to exist.

The app works without react-native-permissions, but I want to use the package to check if permissions are set and direct the user towards settings, if not.

ios/Podfile

  pod 'Permission-Microphone', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Microphone"
  pod 'Permission-SpeechRecognition', :path => "#{permissions_path}/SpeechRecognition"

ios/< appname >/Info.plist (relevant entries)

    <key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
    <string>CUSTOM: Allow to access the microphone</string>
    <key>NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription</key>
    <string>CUSTOM: Allow to securely recognize user speech</string>

app.config.js (expo)

...
   "plugins": [
            "@react-native-firebase/app",
            "@react-native-firebase/perf",
            "@react-native-firebase/crashlytics",
            "@react-native-google-signin/google-signin",
            ["react-native-fbsdk-next",
                {
                    "appID": "xxx",
                    "clientToken": "xxx",
                    "displayName": "xxx",
                    "advertiserIDCollectionEnabled": false,
                    "autoLogAppEventsEnabled": false,
                    "isAutoInitEnabled": true
                }
            ],
            [
                "@react-native-voice/voice",
                {
                    "microphonePermission": "CUSTOM: Allow access the microphone",
                    "speechRecognitionPermission": "CUSTOM: to securely recognize user speech"
                }
            ]
        ]

Workflow

expo prebuild --clean

cd ios

# modify `Podfile` and add below two lines
permissions_path = '../node_modules/react-native-permissions/ios'
pod 'Permission-Microphone', :path => "#{permissions_path}/Microphone"
pod 'Permission-SpeechRecognition', :path => "#{permissions_path}/SpeechRecognition"

pod install

cd ..
eas build --platform ios --profile development --local

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Michael Brenndoerfer
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react-native-permission will only work if you have ejected your expo app and have then ran prebuild for IOS. BUT if you are using EAS as your pipeline to build and create dev builds, you need to use: expo-permissions lib.

Kishav Durgapersad
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I was also having the same issue. Then I read the error message that you shared contained the solution to the problem. The following steps worked for me:

  • Check that you link at least one permission handler in your Podfile
  • Uninstall this app, delete your xcode DerivedData folder and rebuild it.

I did't need to do the third step.

Segun Ajala
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