Help creating app in Google play store - permission to use camera

Expo Application Services (EAS)
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The instructions are here: patch-package - npm

I’m using yarn, so assuming I was trying to work around this issue in the expo-image-picker package, I would do something like the following:

The dependencies from package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "expo": "~43.0.2",
    "expo-image-picker": "~11.0.3",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.1.0",
    "react": "17.0.1",
    "react-dom": "17.0.1",
    "react-native": "0.64.3",
    "react-native-web": "0.17.1"
  },

In node_modules/expo-image-picker there’s a file called app.plugin.js. This is the config plugin’s entry point. You’ll see it only contains the following line:

module.exports = require('./plugin/build/withImagePicker');

So we need to look in node_modules/expo-image-picker/plugin/build/withImagePicker.js. Open that file and remove the lines mentioning android.permission.CAMERA and android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO.

Then run patch-package as follows:

myapp$ npx patch-package expo-image-picker
patch-package 6.4.7
• Creating temporary folder
• Installing expo-image-picker@11.0.3 with yarn
• Diffing your files with clean files
✔ Created file patches/expo-image-picker+11.0.3.patch

💡 expo-image-picker is on GitHub! To draft an issue based on your patch run

    yarn patch-package expo-image-picker --create-issue

Then add the patch to Git:

myapp$ git add patches
myapp$ git commit -m "Don't add CAMERA and RECORD_AUDIO Android permissions"
[master 5f6eff5] Don't add CAMERA and RECORD_AUDIO Android permissions
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 patches/expo-image-picker+11.0.3.patch

Then in order for it to work during the build you’ll need to follow the patch-package “Set-up” instructions:

Scripts section from package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "expo start",
    "android": "expo start --android",
    "ios": "expo start --ios",
    "web": "expo start --web",
    "eject": "expo eject",
    "postinstall": "patch-package"    
  },

Install patch-package as a dev dependency and commit the changes:

myapp$ yarn add --dev patch-package postinstall-postinstall
[...]
$ patch-package
patch-package 6.4.7
Applying patches...
expo-image-picker@11.0.3 ✔
Done in 4.77s.
myapp$ git commit -am "Install patch-package"
[master a14d8dd] Install patch-package
 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Then try building a package and I think that should solve the problem for now. When the Expo team updates the expo-image-picker package to make the Android permissions configurable, upgrade that package, uninstall patch-package, remove the patches directory and the patch file and remove the post-install script from package.json.