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crashes on iOS (solved)

See original GitHub issue

It took me some experimenting before I got this working on iOS without crashes.

So to clearify the readme (which is correct):

The Info.plist is to be found in <root app dir>/ios/<app name>/Info.plist

Add the keys in the list between the <dict> and </dict> tags, like:

<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>Select an existing photo for us</string>
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>Take a photo for us</string>

If you have a simulator running, close everything en then run it again: react-native run-ios

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Created 7 years ago
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Gyscommented, Jan 22, 2017

@marcshilling

Yes, this is more or less in the readme But there are two Info.plist files in a react native project, so I think its useful to mention which one. Plus an example of how to add them; to me as a non-Apple programmer it was not clear what to make of ‘Add the NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription, NSCameraUsageDescription, and NSMicrophoneUsageDescription (if allowing video) keys’. Took me a moment to understand these are really <key> entries and that they need a <string> for value. Just want to save time for others.

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marcshillingcommented, Mar 12, 2017

@rishiankush your Xcode project contains a file Info.plist. This is a simple key-value store. You just need to add the keys NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription, etc, with a string value that you want displayed to the user for why you are requesting that permission. For example: NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription : "We need access to your photo library so that we can select photos"