iDevice camera shows black instead of preview

Question

I am developing an app that captures images from iDevice\'s camera and upload it to web

Answer 1

I had faced this issue in my app. Though I never found out the what the issue was, I rewrote my code to define a property of UIIMagePickerController type and initialize it once in the getter. Used this property to initialize the camera view :

getter:

-(UIImagePickerController *) imagePicker{
    if(!_imagePicker){
       _imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
       _imagePicker.delegate = self;
       if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]){
           _imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
       }
       else{
           _imagePicker.sourceType =UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
       }  

   }
    return _imagePicker;
}


- (IBAction)addNewImage:(id)sender{
  if (self.imagePicker)
  {
      [self presentViewController:self.imagePicker animated:YES completion:^{}];
  }
}

For some reason this got rid of the issue with preview sometimes showing a black screen