Tuesday 11 November 2014

Swift + Take pictures and save to camera roll using UIImagePickerController

First Add and Import MobileCoreServices Framework.

Confirm to UIImagePickerControllerDelegate & UINavigationControllerDelegate protocol


import UIKit

import MobileCoreServices


class ViewController: UIViewController, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UIAlertViewDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate
{

    var cameraUI: UIImagePickerController! = UIImagePickerController()
    
    
    override func viewDidLoad()
    {
        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        
    }

    //--- Take Photo from Camera ---//
    @IBAction func takePhotoFromCamera(sender: AnyObject)
    {
          self.presentCamera()
    }



    func presentCamera()
    {
       
        if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.Camera)
        {
            println("Button capture")
        
            cameraUI = UIImagePickerController()
            cameraUI.delegate = self
            cameraUI.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.Camera;
            cameraUI.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeImage]
            cameraUI.allowsEditing = false
            
            self.presentViewController(cameraUI, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
        else
        {
            // error msg
        }
    }
    
    //Mark- UIImagePickerController Delegate
    
    func imagePickerControllerDidCancel(picker:UIImagePickerController)
    {
        self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
    }
    



    func imagePickerController(picker:UIImagePickerController!, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info:NSDictionary)
    {
        if(picker.sourceType == UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.Camera)
        {
            // Access the uncropped image from info dictionary
            var imageToSave: UIImage = info.objectForKey(UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage) as UIImage
            var imageToSave1: UIImage = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as UIImage //same but with different way
            
            UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(imageToSave, nil, nil, nil)
            
            self.savedImageAlert()
            self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

        }
       
    }
    
    
    
    
    func savedImageAlert()
    {
        var alert:UIAlertView = UIAlertView()
        alert.title = "Saved!"
        alert.message = "Your picture was saved to Camera Roll"
        alert.delegate = self
        alert.addButtonWithTitle("Ok")
        alert.show()
    }





}

4 comments:

  1. When did you ever call savedImageAlert?

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  2. Thank you so much! I was looking for UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum.

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    1. do you know how i get the url of saved image?

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  3. its working but i want the url at which image is saved in device,please if you have any idea?

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