Comments on: Camera Application to Take Pictures and Save Images to Photo Album

By: Amin

Amin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:32 +0000

How to save image from my current image. I have 10 pictures reside in the folder called pages/image1.jpg etc. My app is about ipad picturebook. When user swipe it goes to a new page. Below the page, i have a button to save a picture to photos album. How to do that ? Any tutorial for this ?

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:27:28 +0000

Steve,

You will receive that error message, or something similar, when trying to access the camera in the simulator. You could put a check in there to see if the camera is available. Only allow camera access if it is available and then the app shouldn’t crash when you run it in your simulator.

Also, you can save to your application’s documents directory. You should be able to find a lot of documentation on this if you search for NSFileManager and use that in combination with returned array from the method call NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES).

Charles

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:05:30 +0000

Hi, great tutorial, Very simple and easy understanding. Few questions… I know this will NOT work in the simulator but tried anyways to see what would actually happen when i click the “Activate Camera” button. It crashes the app and i get the SIGABRT error.
Should it display this error since the camera will not run in the simulator?

Also how can i use the picture in my app instead of saving to photo gallery? Any documentation or reference much appreciated!

Thanks!
Steve

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:36:18 +0000

Thank You.. Good Work Mr. John

By: raj

raj — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:35:45 +0000

thanx…

By: James

James — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:10:13 +0000

Thanks for the post on this. Have a problem though.

After the image is saved to the camera roll and the modalViewController is dismissed, the test_appViewController does not reappear with the button on it. Did the testing on the device, of course. Any clue as to why this is happening?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:30:05 +0000

Great job, thanks for the info (I was stuck saving the images locally after invoking the camera, but not anymore) – thanks!

By: Arsalan

Arsalan — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:05:46 +0000

John, no matter how much I appreciate your work it’ll never do justice to how great a job you are doing. Thank you.

By: rohit

rohit — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:22:47 +0000

excellent..!!!

By: zenchemical

zenchemical — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:28:28 +0000

It looks like there is some sort of setup that prevents the button click action being called in ‘viewDidLoad’ – at least, I did it, but it didn’t work. Is anyone aware of an application or view delegate method in which instantiating the UIImagePickerController would work?