How to show the specific image from PhotoLibrary?

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In my Application I need to get specific image from Photo Library,

with use of didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo i am able to get the Imagename and ImagePath.

I am storing Imagename, ImagePath in Database.

But, how to show that specific image with use of the Imagename or ImagePath in Imageview from Photo Library?

is this after the image selection? display the selected image in a UIImageView? you can pass the image to UIImage like this. UIImage* image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage]; // for original image — janusfidel, Jul 04 '12 at 04:17

Shamsudheen TK · Answer 1 · 2014-11-03T05:51:02.900

Please make use of ALAssetLibrary. To do this, add the AssetsLibrary.framework to your project and write the below code.

Your file name should look like assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000194&ext=JPG

NSString *fileName = @"assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000194&ext=JPG";

typedef void (^ALAssetsLibraryAssetForURLResultBlock)(ALAsset *asset);
typedef void (^ALAssetsLibraryAccessFailureBlock)(NSError *error);    

ALAssetsLibraryAssetForURLResultBlock resultblock = ^(ALAsset *myasset)
{
    ALAssetRepresentation *rep = [myasset defaultRepresentation];
    CGImageRef iref = [rep fullResolutionImage];
    UIImage *images = nil;

    if (iref)
    {
        images = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:iref scale:[rep scale] orientation:(UIImageOrientation)[rep orientation]];       

        //doing UI operation on the main thread
         dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{

         yourImageView.image = images;

     });    

    }   
};

ALAssetsLibraryAccessFailureBlock failureblock  = ^(NSError *myerror)
{
    NSLog(@"can't get image");
};    

NSURL *asseturl = [NSURL URLWithString:fileName];

ALAssetsLibrary* assetslibrary = [[[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init] autorelease];
[assetslibrary assetForURL:asseturl 
               resultBlock:resultblock   
              failureBlock:failureblock];

Note:

After the upgrade to iOS 5 and a code refactoring to make use of ARC, you will get an error as

invalid attempt to access ALAssetPrivate past the lifetime of its owning ALAssetsLibraryrefactoring to make use of ARC

To resolve this, add a static method to retrieve a shared instance of ALAssetLibrary class.

+ (ALAssetsLibrary *)defaultAssetsLibrary {
    static dispatch_once_t pred = 0;
    static ALAssetsLibrary *library = nil;
    dispatch_once(&pred, ^{
        library = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
    });
    return library; 
}

Then, access it using [MyClass defaultAssetsLibrary];

[[MyClass defaultAssetsLibrary] assetForURL:asseturl 
                   resultBlock:resultblock   
                  failureBlock:failureblock];

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '12 at 04:30

If you have image path with you than you can use the following code. Lets take imagePath as NSString Variable that contains image path including image name.

   NSData *thedata=[[NSData alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:imagePath];
     UIImageView *img=[[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:[UIImage imageWithData:thedata]];

Hope it helps.

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