react-native: [PermissionsAndroid] request is not prompting and always return true

Description

I want to use the camera in my react-native application on Android. For this, I’m using the Camera from https://github.com/lwansbrough/react-native-camera.

So, in order to this, i’m using PermissionsAndroid to make sure that the user has the access to the camera. Here comes my problem.

I’m using the code from the doc (here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/permissionsandroid.html) to do the request permission on camera and I’m having an issue with this as it never asks me to allow the camera and always returns true, even if I disable the camera permission on my device.

Here is the scenario when camera permission access is granted :

Here is the scenario when camera permission access is not granted :

Reproduction

What I’m doing is simply this :

export async function requestCameraPermission() {
  try {
    const granted = await PermissionsAndroid.request(
      PermissionsAndroid.PERMISSIONS.CAMERA,
      {
        'title': 'Cool Photo App Camera Permission',
        'message': 'Cool Photo App needs access to your camera ' +
                   'so you can take awesome pictures.'
      }
    )
    if (granted === PermissionsAndroid.RESULTS.GRANTED) {
      console.log("You can use the camera")
    } else {
      console.log("Camera permission denied")
    }
  } catch (err) {
    console.warn(err)
  }
}

  async componentWillMount() {
    await requestCameraPermission() // which always returns "You can use the camera" even if I disable camera permission access on my device
  }

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.40
• Platform: Android 7.1.1
• Development Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 16.04)
• Dev tools: android:minSdkVersion=“16” android:targetSdkVersion=“23”

I’m also experiencing this issue using https://github.com/yonahforst/react-native-permissions/ : https://github.com/yonahforst/react-native-permissions/issues/86