I haven’t confirmed if this is the case in Expo 26/ 27, but I can definitely confirm that I see this new behavior in Expo 28 and did not in Expo 25 (last time I played with this functionality extensively).
Anyway, my question is, is it now required that you explicitly ask for permissions for the camera/ camera roll on iOS before pulling up the ImagePicker? Because I was getting “no camera roll permission” errors when I just called the ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync() when running my code in the Expo app using SDK 28. Previously, it would ask for permissions automatically when calling the ImagePicker. Once I added specific code to ask for permissions it worked in Expo 28.
The ImagePicker docs mention requiring permissions for iOS, but I always took that to mean you need to stick them in your app.json. The code example and snack in the docs don’t show requesting the permissions first, and sure enough, when I open the snack and switch it to SDK 28, the request to open the camera roll fails silently.
When I change the snack in ImagePicker documentation to the following, it works on Expo 28:
import React from 'react';
import { Button, Image, View } from 'react-native';
import { ImagePicker, Permissions } from 'expo';
export default class ImagePickerExample extends React.Component {
state = {
image: null,
};
render() {
let { image } = this.state;
return (
<View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
<Button
title="Pick an image from camera roll"
onPress={this._pickImage}
/>
{image &&
<Image source={{ uri: image }} style={{ width: 200, height: 200 }} />}
</View>
);
}
_pickImage = async () => {
const { status } = await Permissions.askAsync(Permissions.CAMERA_ROLL);
if (status === 'granted') {
let result = await ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync({
allowsEditing: true,
aspect: [4, 3],
});
console.log(result);
if (!result.cancelled) {
this.setState({ image: result.uri });
}
} else {
throw new Error('Camera roll permission not granted');
}
};
}
Anyway, I’m good at the moment (I’m just asking for permissions now), but just wanted to bring it up in case it was a regression and the docs/ example code should work, or if it was intentional and maybe the example needs updating. Thanks!