BLE works without asking user for permission? about config-plugins HOT 4 CLOSED

I figured out that only the location permission needs to be actually prompted and I found the guides for that.

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@kabiskac is it required to add some (own) code to request the location permissions or does expo / react-native-ble-plx handle the request when it is required?
For iOS it requested the bluetooth permission at the moment I started using it ... without any extra code.
For Android it doesn't request anything and it fails with "no permission".

Could you please post a link to the guide you found for that? Is it possible to request only bluetooth permission with a fallback to location on older SDKs? Or is location still required for all (new) Androids?

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@petrusek this plugin simply configures the native static permissions, you may find more useful API resources in the react-native-ble-plx repo.

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Thank you @EvanBacon ... I will experiment with some code I found here https://github.com/PolideaPlayground/SensorTag/blob/master/src/Saga.js#L127 (linked from the ble-plx repo). I just wasn't sure if there is no documentation for it.

Btw. starting from API level 31 it seems it won't be necessary to request location permissions, so it would be great if the plugin would be able to also add this (maybe based on some params):

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN"
                     android:usesPermissionFlags="neverForLocation" />

I guess also my runtime code requesting the permission will need to be aware of the API level (Platform.Version) to request the correct permission - fine location or scan (https://reactnative.dev/docs/permissionsandroid#permissions-that-require-prompting-the-user).

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