ImageVideoPicker

I was searching for a similar Image and Video Picker for a project and i wasn't able to find one that was able to :

1. Take picture
2. Get a Picture from the library
3. Register a Video
4. Get a video from the library

While i was looking i hopen whatsup of facebook or mabe google have a pod for this kind of needs, i realy liked the whatsapp picker, so i created this one similer to the one in whatsapp.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

In order to use ImageVideoPicker you need cocoapods and an xCode project already created

Installing

to install cocoapods is should be enough just to run sudo gem install cocoapods in the terminal if this doen't work go to cocoapods

Then navigate the terminal to your project folder, where the file extension .xcodeproj is located and run pod init this will create a file called Podfile Open the file in a editor ( sublimeText, xCode, atom, vim ... etc ) and add the line bellow after use_frameworks!

pod 'ImagePickerWhatsApp'

or

pod 'ImagePickerWhatsApp', :git => 'https://github.com/jhonyourangel/ImagePickerWhatsApp.git'

then just run pod install in the terminal and wait to finish instaling the lib

How to use it

add import ImagePickerWhatsApp to your viewcontroller class

then you can call the picker by calling :

let mp = ImageVideoPicker.makeVCFromStoryboard()
self.present(mp, animated: true, completion: nil)

Info.plist

open info.plsit as source code and insert at the end ( before the </dict> </plist>) and save

<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app requires access to the photo library.</string>
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app requires access to the camera.</string>

after inserting the lines above open the info.plist as property list this will set the xCode to open all the other plist files as property list

Delegate

to implement the delegate add mp.delegate = self and the extent the class of you view controller aso you need to import the iOS Photos framework import Photos

extension ViewController: ImageVideoPickerDelegate {
    func onCancel() {
        print("no picture selected")
    }

    func onDoneSelection(assets: [PHAsset]) {
       print("selected \(assets.count) assets")
    }
}

the func onDoneSelection returns an array of assets that contain the info of where the asset is located : on the device, iTunes library or iCloud.

if you just need to display the images you can use the this code in a collection view or something similar just implement this peace of code

var representedAssetIdentifier: String!

func getImageFrom(asset: Phasset) {
    representedAssetIdentifier = asset?.localIdentifier
    let imageManager = PHCachingImageManager()

    imageManager.requestImage(for: asset!, targetSize: self.frame.size, contentMode: .default, options: nil) { (image, _) in

        if(self.representedAssetIdentifier == self.asset?.localIdentifier &&
            image != nil) {
            self.imageView.image = image
        }
    }
}

this will show just the thumbnail, but is awesome because is also showing the thumbnail for live photos, and videos

Images and Videos as Data

The lib is intended to be used for sending images or videos over the network, and not to do fancy image or video editing. But this doesn't mea you can't. You can do just about anything since it returns an array of assets, but is you job to implement what you need.

in order to get the data from the asset ImageVideoPicker has one method that will return an completition handler with the data.

ImageVideoPicker.getDataFrom(asset: asset) { (data) in
    if data == nil {
        print(data as Any, asset.mediaType, asset.localIdentifier)
    } else {
        print(data!.count as Any, asset.mediaType, asset.localIdentifier)
    }
}

that will be all have fun

Authors

• Ion Utale

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details