Camera permission and 5. 1.1 Legal: Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

[joeboy_uk]

In the past whenever I've asked for camera permission or camera roll permission I've always put a modal alert before the request to access the camera that states why the app is requesting permission. Like the one screencapped below. My latest app is getting rejected for this. They want me to have the reason stated in the apple modal alert that actually asks for permission.

I don't have access to that modal alert as it's a system alert. Has anyone been able to change that system alert and if so how?

[Colin Holgate]

They are just entries in the app descriptor XML. I just had to do that, and here are my entries for why I want the camera, and why I want access to camera roll. I think you will still be ok with doing your own dialog before the Apple one comes up. Here's how the XML looks:

<InfoAdditions><![CDATA[

<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>

<string>Take pictures of the people and places you would like to remember.</string>

<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>

<string>Save this photo to your camera roll.</string>

[joeboy_uk]

AHhhh, I never knew that. That's great hopefully that will appease this reviewer.

thanks for your help

[Colin Holgate]

AIR 28 introduced support for purposeStrings.xml. You can use that to define several permissions strings, and in alternate languages. This post talks about it:

11/23/2017 - Beta - AIR 28.0.0.120