How to Add Live Camera Preview to UIView

Question

I run into a problem, I\'m trying to solve within UIView boundary, is there any way to Add Camera Preview to UIView? And Add other content on top of The UIView (Buttons, Lab

Answer 1

iOS 13/14 and Swift 5.3:

private var imageVC: UIImagePickerController?

and then call showCameraVC() when you want to show the camera view

func showCameraVC() {    
    self.imageVC = UIImagePickerController()

    if UIImagePickerController.isCameraDeviceAvailable(.front) {
        self.imageVC?.sourceType = .camera
        self.imageVC?.cameraDevice = .front
        self.imageVC?.showsCameraControls = false
                
        let screenSize = UIScreen.main.bounds.size
        let cameraAspectRatio = CGFloat(4.0 / 3.0)
        let cameraImageHeight = screenSize.width * cameraAspectRatio
        let scale = screenSize.height / cameraImageHeight
        self.imageVC?.cameraViewTransform = CGAffineTransform(translationX: 0, y: (screenSize.height - cameraImageHeight)/2)
        self.imageVC?.cameraViewTransform = self.imageVC!.cameraViewTransform.scaledBy(x: scale, y: scale)
    
        self.imageVC?.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: screenSize.width, height: screenSize.height)
        self.view.addSubview(self.imageVC!.view)
        self.view.sendSubviewToBack(self.imageVC!.view)
    }
}

Camera view will be also fullscreen (other answers wouldn't fix a letterboxed view)