Hide/Show iPhone Camera Iris/Shutter animation

Question

I am not able to Hide the iphone Camera shutter opening animation for my app. I am using UIImagePickerController to access iphone camera and using my own overlay controllers

Answer 1

Came across a similar: I wanted to have the shutter appear when I take the picture triggered by a button in a self.cameraOverlayView of a UIImagePickerController. Arrived to this page, did some extra research and came to this solution.

Synopsis:

@interface MyController : UIImagePickerController
...    
- (id) init {
...
    self.cameraOverlayView = _my_overlay_;
    self.showsCameraControls = NO;
...
}
... 
- (void) onMyShutterButton {
    [self takePicture]; 
        // You want the shutter animation to happen now.
        // .. but it does not.
}

Solution:

// Some constants for the iris view and selector
NSString* kIrisViewClassName = @"PLCameraIrisAnimationView";
SEL kIrisSelector = NSSelectorFromString(@"animateIrisOpen");

@implementation MyController {
...
    UIView* iris_;
}
- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    // Find the iris view in the siblings of your overlay view
    for (UIView* view in self.cameraOverlayView.superview.subviews) {
        if ([kIrisViewClassName isEqualToString:[[view class] description]]) {
            // It will be hidden by 'self.showsCameraControls = NO'.
            view.hidden = false;   
            // Extra precautions - as this is undocumented.  
            if ([view respondsToSelector:kIrisSelector]) {
                iris_ = view;
            }
            break;
        }
    }
}
- (void) animateIrisOpen {
    if (iris_) {
        [iris_ performSelector:kIrisSelector];
    }
}
...
- (void) onMyShutterButton {
    [self takePicture]; 
    [self animateIrisOpen];   // Voila - the shutter happens
}