Showing posts with label photo album. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo album. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

iOS6 Getting image from Photo Library

What you would need to do to capture a image from a local photo library.

First ensure that the controller you create works these delegates;


<UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate>



Method to Start request to grab the image;

- (void) useCameraRoll:(id)sender
{
    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:
          UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum])
    {
       UIImagePickerController *imagePicker =
           [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
       imagePicker.delegate = self;
       imagePicker.sourceType =
           UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
        imagePicker.mediaTypes = @[(NSString *) kUTTypeImage];
       imagePicker.allowsEditing = NO;
       [self presentViewController:imagePicker 
           animated:YES completion:nil];
       _newMedia = NO;
    }
}


Delegate Methods to Receive the Image;


#pragma mark -
#pragma mark UIImagePickerControllerDelegate

-(void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
   NSString *mediaType = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];

   [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

    if ([mediaType isEqualToString:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage]) {
        UIImage *image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

        _imageView.image = image;
        if (_newMedia)
            UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image,
               self,
               @selector(image:finishedSavingWithError:contextInfo:),
               nil);
        }
        else if ([mediaType isEqualToString:(NSString *)kUTTypeMovie])
        {
                // Code here to support video if enabled
        }
}

-(void)image:(UIImage *)image
finishedSavingWithError:(NSError *)error
contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo
{
   if (error) {
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
           initWithTitle: @"Save failed"
           message: @"Failed to save image"
           delegate: nil
           cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
           otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
   }
}

-(void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
{
   [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

References:  Accessing the iPhone Camera and Photo Library (iOS 6)