uiimagepickercontroller

Freeze or pause iPhone camera image

On iPhone's built-in Camera application (OS 3.1), touching the shutter button shows an iris animation, then displays the image that was taken for a second or so before animating it away. Is anyone aware of a simple way to get this "brief pause" activity? Or do I have to resort to manually adding the image as part of my custom cameraOve...

Extracting iPhone Exposure Setting

It seems that a similar question has been asked before, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/373357/obtaining-iphone-photo-exposure-information I wondering with the new iPhone camera, if there is any way to extract exposure data from the camera? it seems that it is able to sample different exposures based on where you focus, but I have yet...

Parent View issues with UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera

I have an odd problem with UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera. My application gives the choice to select a pic from the gallery, or take a photo with the camera. If I choose the gallery, I pick a photo and return to my view, no issues. However, when using UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera, it appears to do something odd with ...

How to use an image taken in the 1stViewController in the 2ndViewController?

The user can choose whether he wants to use an existing image or take a new one for use as the background. Everything works as far as the FirstViewController is concerned. Sadly the image is no longer set as the background when the SecondViewController is displayed. How do I enable the use of the image as background for the SecondView...

iPhone Memory Warning with Camera, but not Photo Library

I'm consistently receiving a memory warning right after pressing the "Use" button on the UIImagePickerController in Camera mode. I used Instruments for the first time to try to figure out what's going on, but I don't see a problem. Before opening the image picker controller, my app is using ~2.0 MB of memory. It looks like both Camera ...

Attached Camera Roll Picture to Email

I have written a camera app that use UIImagepicker and it saves the pic to the camera roll. Is there a way I can write code to attached the same pic to an email attachment? How can I programmatically attached a picture from the camera roll to an email that my app generates? Thanks, Larry ...

Is there a way to use the UIImagePickerController with your own images?

I was wondering if there is a way to make a UIImagePickerController use a collection of images that you specify (in other words I make 10 photos of doorbells and make the UIImagePickerController show me those photos and let the user select one). In other words, a custom photo gallery is where I'm heading. Is there a way that I can do th...

Objective-C iPhone - UIImagePickerController error

Hi, I'm doing something with UIImagePickerController. It works fine and the Picture browser does open, however, I get this message. "Failed to save the videos metadata to the filesystem. Maybe the information did not conform to a plist." What could be causing that? That is caused by this line [self presentModalViewController:self.imgP...

UIImagePickerController: Detecting Camera button (shutter) pressed

I would like to call a method that takes an NSNotification immediately after the user presses the camera shutter (i.e when the "Preview" tab bar has the buttons "Retake" and "Use"). I can't use the didFinishPickingImage method because at this time the user has already pressed the "Use" button. I have already implemented this by camer...

Create a customised UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary

The path for the thumbnails of the images located in the iPhone is: /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/.MISC/ (or instead of 100APPLE we have 101APPLE, 102APPLE etc). If I want to pick these images directly from these folders, what is the best way to improvise a nice picker like the one for UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLi...

UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum pictures crash my app when I upload to server

The app that I am creating uploads images in four(the fourth is a test function) ways; 1.Directly from UIImagePickerController with UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera like this: //didFinishPickingImage method if ([picker sourceType] == UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera) { UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(img, nil, nil, nil); }...

iphone camera,imagecontroller SDK

Hello good morning, I am trying to use Camera or Imagepicker Library to get an image after taking a new picture i get a View > Asking me to Add a Description and then I have 2 Options in the toolbar "Cancel" / Upload. I have seen it in quite few applications. Can somebody tell me if the intermediate view is inbuilt in the iPhone Camer...

Overriding iPhone shutter sound through SDK

In my iPhone app, I am using the UIImagePickerController with source type UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera. When the user takes a picture, the phone plays the familiar camera shutter sound. How can I replace this with my own custom sound? I know it's possible because I've seen other apps from the App Store do it (e.g. Red Laser). ...

iPhone: How to skip preview mode in imagePickerController?

Hi I am developing an iphone app using camera. How to skip preview mode in imagePickerController? This mode asks whether to use or retake. I think it is unnecessary step for my application. 1) How to bypass the preview mode? Is there no standard way? 2) The one way I know is screen capture. But I don't prefer because it gives lower ...

UIImage Saving image with file name on the iPhone

How can I save an image (like using UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum() method) with a filename of my choice to the private/var folder? ...

Severe memory problems with UIImagePickerController using Camera

I've noticed that when I load a UIImagePickerController and I take a picture with it, didReceiveMemoryWarning is called. Also, in Instruments, there is a significant memory leak (not by me, I swear!). I've heard that this is a problem with UIImagePickerController but, I'm not sure how to fix it. Here is my implementation of UIImagePicker...

Callback for camera shutter open event

Hi all, I have been working around in UIImagePickerController and am struck with a problem where I need to get the precise moment when the camera shutter opens in UIImagePickerController when the source type is set to camera (UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera). I have done some googling around and have realized that no one had su...

Detecting the iPhone Device is flat

To detect the orientation of the phone when taking a picture I use orientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait orientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft But these work if the picture is being taken from the side. How do I check ...

iPhone SDK - How to disable the picture preview in UIImagePickerController?

Is there any way to disable the image preview after taking a picture with the UIImagePickerController? I want to dismiss the ImagePicker as soon as the user pressed the shutter release button. ...

iPhone SDK - How to customize the crop rect in UIImagePickerController with allowsEditing on?

Is there any way to define the crop area rect using the camera image picker? ...