Ask permission to access Camera Roll

Question

I have a settings view where the user can choose switch on or off the feature \'Export to Camera Roll\'

When the user switches it on for the first time (and

Answer 1

iOS 9.2.1, Xcode 7.2.1, ARC enabled

'ALAuthorizationStatus' is deprecated: first deprecated in iOS 9.0 - Use PHAuthorizationStatus in the Photos framework instead

Please see this post for an updated solution:

Determine if the access to photo library is set or not - PHPhotoLibrary (iOS 8)

Key notes:

• Most likely you are designing for iOS7.0+ as of todays date, because of this fact you will need to handle both ALAuthorizationStatus and PHAuthorizationStatus.

The easiest is to do...

if ([PHPhotoLibrary class])
{
   //Use the Photos framework
}
else
{
   //Use the Asset Library framework
}

• You will need to decide which media collection you want to use as your source, this is dictated by the device that your app. will run on and which version of OS it is using.

• You might want to direct the user to settings if the authorization is denied by user.