expo-permissions-hooks

🎉 A simple and efficient way to use handle Expo permissions through React hooks

Installation

npm install expo-permissions-hooks

Quick start

import usePermissions from 'expo-permissions-hooks'
const DemoComponent = () => {
  const permission = usePermissions('CONTACTS')
  return (
    <View>
      <Text>{`Status is ${permission.status}`}</Text>
      {permission.isUndetermined && (
        <>
          <Text>{'Permission is undetermined.'}</Text>
          <Button onPress={permission.ask} title="Grant Contacts permission ?" />
        </>
      )}
      {permission.isGranted && (
        <Text>{'Permission is granted.'}</Text>
      )}
      {permission.isDenied && (
        <Text>{'Permission is denied.'}</Text>
      )}
      {(permission.isGranted || permission.isDenied) && (
        <Button onPress={permission.goToSettings} title="Change your mind ?" />
      )}
    </View>
  )
}

That's it. 😎

Options

usePermissions(permission)

Name	Type	Description
permission	String	One of "AUDIO_RECORDING", "CALENDAR", "CAMERA", "CAMERA_ROLL", "CONTACTS", "LOCATION", "NOTIFICATIONS", "REMINDERS", "SYSTEM_BRIGHTNESS", "USER_FACING_NOTIFICATIONS"

The function usePermissions expects one single parameter, the required permission. For more info about expo permissions, read the expo-permissions documentation.

Methods

Name	Type	Description
status	String	The status of the permission
isChecking	Boolean	Whether the permission is being checked
isUndetermined	Boolean	Whether the permission has never been asked yet
isGranted	Boolean	Whether the permission has been granted
isDenied	Boolean	Whether the permission has been denied
ask	Function	Ask the permission
goToSettings	Function	Go to the OS' settings to change the given permission

To do

fix Android erratic status values
set Android goToSettings correct route through IntentLauncher

Contribute

Fork & pull request.
If you planning add some feature please create issue before.

Otherwise changes will be rejected.

Licence

The MIT License

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