How to ask authorization to access photos / camera roll with custom view?

Question

How do I create a custom view that will override the "alert view" showing when the app asks for access to camera roll/ photos album? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you only want to change the message displayed to the user in the alertView. You can use NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription.

Add this key to your info.plist and set your custom message as the value.

NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription

Specifies the reason for accessing the user’s photo library. See NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription for details.

Answer 2

Creating a custom view to ask authorization is not possible.

The only change you could do is to specify reason for accessing the user's photo library. (gabbler's answer)

With this, I decided to just create a custom view with a button asking the user to allow access to camera roll. The button can call a method to assetslibrary to send a user prompt on access.

This is more of making things smooth for the user. See Hyperlapse onboarding, its awesome!