PermissionsAndroid
Understand how to use the PermissionsAndroid API in React Native to request and verify Android permissions for sensitive features like camera and location. Explore the difference between normal and dangerous permissions, how to handle user responses asynchronously, and apply these concepts with practical coding examples to ensure app privacy compliance.
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React Native offers the PermissionsAndroid API in Android applications to protect users’ privacy. This API can be used to ask users for permission before accessing sensitive data such as location, contacts, messages, etc. It can also be used to ask permission to access specific system functionalities such as the camera and voice recorder.
Types of permissions
Android permissions can be divided into the following two categories:
- Normal permissions: Normal permissions are those that the application does not need to ask for from the