How to load animated GIF from photo library

Question

In iOS Swift I\'m having difficulty loading an animated GIF from the device photo library to a UIImageView or creating a .gif file from it. I have no problem displaying the

Answer 1

Yes, Use ALAssetsLibrary → now called PHAsset.

You should get the NSData of the gif, not UIImage( because UIImage will only get the first frame.)

So basically you would do something like this:

One you get the asset

let requestOptions = PHImageRequestOptions()
requestOptions.isSynchronous = true // adjust the parameters as you wish    

PHImageManager.default().requestImageData(for: asset, options: requestOptions, resultHandler: { (imageData, UTI, _, _) in
    if let uti = UTI,let data = imageData ,
        // you can also use UTI to make sure it's a gif
       UTTypeConformsTo(uti as CFString, kUTTypeGIF) {
        // save data here
    }
})      

Resource: PHAsset