[SDK 45] android block permissions warning looped

Summary

Now we can remove permissions from our apps with android.blockedPermissions, that’s fantastic. but what isn’t fantastic is that with it came also a loop in the warning » android: block-permissions: No permissions provided making it be spammed in the terminal.

Managed or bare workflow? If you have ios/ or android/ directories in your project, the answer is bare!

managed

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

45

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.3 environment info: System: OS: Linux 5.10 Arch Linux Shell: 5.8.1 - /usr/sbin/zsh Binaries: Node: 16.15.0 - /usr/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.18 - /usr/bin/yarn npm: 8.8.0 - ~/ictio/app/node_modules/.bin/npm npmPackages: expo: ^45.0.0 => 45.0.0 react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 react-native: 0.68.1 => 0.68.1 npmGlobalPackages: eas-cli: 0.52.0 expo-cli: 5.4.3 Expo Workflow: managed

Reproducible demo

Create a new project, add a config plugin (such as expo-image-picker), leave android.blockedPermissions empty or don’t define it. You should be able to see the message at least 2 times when initiating a build, and an infinite number of times when running the app with expo start.

repro on upgraded project from SDK 44 repro on clean initialized project on SDK 45

[Kakasi-Daniel]

I’m occurring the same issue.

[brentvatne]

I can’t reproduce this with expo-cli@5.4.7 and this is resolved in @expo/config-plugins@4.1.5 with this PR which removed the warning entirely.

If you are experiencing this in your project then it is likely that you have a version of @expo/config-plugins installed that is lower than @expo/config-plugins@4.1.5. You can run npm why @expo/config-plugins to see where that comes from.