Please provide the following:
- SDK Version: 40
- Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): Android
(Developing under Windows 10 x64.)
My main project - originally built under Expo 38 but upgraded to Expo 40, ejected to RN, keeps requesting permissions about location, while I don’t use location features at all. I have been looking for solutions for 3 days now, to no avail. Tried everything in here: Removing location permission but none of this helped.
So, as a last resort, I decided to create a new Expo project with Expo 40 and latest React native. I ran a few simple steps that I followed from forum threads, but they don’t seem to do the trick: the new blank application still requests every possible permission. It’s as if I am missing something, or misunderstanding something? Here is what I did, step by step.
Step 1:
$ expo init myTest1
(bare workflow, blank app, javascript)
Step 2: open Visual Studio code and edit app.json, which now looks like this:
Step 3:
Delete folder /node_modules/expo-location
Step 4:
$ yarn android
Result: the application builds and runs well in the Android emulator. But the AndroidManifest.xml file in /android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml still includes every single possible permission. Why?
I am quite new to mobile development and struggling with Expo, React Native, Android, iOS development, trying to connect the pieces but sometimes I feel like I’m missing things. I resort to reading and following the documentation step by step but sometimes it’s as if it just doesn’t work as expected.