I know this is possible, saw this in some apps (iGotYa is I believe the most famous). I know how to set up everything for taking photos, saving it and everything. But how ca
VLBCameraView is a library that uses AVFoundation to take photo.
A preview is shown in the view, which you can then call the method VLBCameraView#takePicture programmatically to take a photo.
Comes with CocoaPods.