How to allow the user to pick a photo from his camera roll or photo library?

Question

I\'m making a little photo editing app for fun. Users must select a photo from their camera roll which will then be imported for modification.

How does this generall

Answer 1

I worked on an application that allows user to select a personal image. I had two UIButtons which could help the user to pick a picture, whether it was from camera or library. It's something like this:

- (void)camera {
if(![UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]){
    return;
}
UIImagePickerController *picker = [[[UIImagePickerController alloc] init] autorelease];
picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
//Permetto la modifica delle foto
picker.allowsEditing = YES;
//Imposto il delegato
[picker setDelegate:self];

[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}
- (void)library {
//Inizializzo la classe per la gestione della libreria immagine
UIImagePickerController *picker = [[[UIImagePickerController alloc] init] autorelease];
picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
//Permetto la modifica delle foto
picker.allowsEditing = YES;
//Imposto il delegato
[picker setDelegate:self];

[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}

You have to implement the UIImagePickerControllerDelegate:

@interface PickPictureViewController : UIViewController 

@implementation PickPictureViewController

#pragma mark UIImagePickerController Delegate
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info{
UIImage *pickedImage = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage];
if (picker.sourceType == UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera) {
    UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(pickedImage, self, @selector(image:didFinishSavingWithError:contextInfo:), nil);
}
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker{
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
- (void)image:(UIImage *)image didFinishSavingWithError:(NSError *)error contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo{}

Hope it helps! ;)