How to allow user to pick the image with Swift?

Question

I am writing my first iOS application (iPhone only) with Swift. The main application view should allow user to choose the image from the photo gallery.

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Answer 1

Incase if you don't want to have a separate button, here is a another way. Attached a gesture on imageView itself, where on tap of image a alert will popup with two option. You will have the option to choose either from gallery/photo library or to cancel the alert.

import UIKit
import CoreData

class AddDetailsViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate {

@IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!

var picker:UIImagePickerController? = UIImagePickerController()

@IBAction func saveButton(sender: AnyObject) {
    let managedContext = (UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as? AppDelegate)!.managedObjectContext

    let entity = NSEntityDescription.entityForName("Person", inManagedObjectContext: managedContext)

    let person = Person(entity: entity!, insertIntoManagedObjectContext: managedContext)

    person.image = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(imageView.image!, 1.0) //imageView.image

    do {
         try person.managedObjectContext?.save()
         //people.append(person)
       } catch let error as NSError {
         print("Could not save \(error)")
    }
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(AddDetailsViewController.tapGesture(_:)))
    imageView.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
    imageView.userInteractionEnabled = true

    picker?.delegate = self
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

func tapGesture(gesture: UIGestureRecognizer) {
    let alert:UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Profile Picture Options", message: nil, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet)

    let gallaryAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Open Gallary", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default) {
        UIAlertAction in self.openGallary()
    }

    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel) {
        UIAlertAction in self.cancel()
    }

    alert.addAction(gallaryAction)
    alert.addAction(cancelAction)

    self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)

}


func openGallary() {
    picker!.allowsEditing = false
    picker!.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.PhotoLibrary
    presentViewController(picker!, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : AnyObject]) {
    if let pickedImage = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage {
        imageView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit
        imageView.image = pickedImage
    }

    dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}

func cancel(){
    print("Cancel Clicked")
}

}

Adding more to the question, implemented the logic to store images in CoreData.