Display images from Gallery in iPhone

Question

I am new in iPhone and in learning phase now a days. Actually i want to implement that i read images stored in my iPhone PHOTO Gallery and then display it onto my application.

I have searched in many Search Engines but could not find any thing. You all are professionals over here. Please guide me thrrough some code or some tutorial.

Thanks alot

Read the documentation and search for tutorial about UIImagePickerController. You will get what you want — stack2012, Jul 13 '11 at 05:48

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

Edit

Also check out this question/answer and the method that is used to get the image from uiimagepickercontroller as the method that i have mentioned earlier is deprecated.

didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo return nil photo

check out the documentation http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIImagePickerController_Class/UIImagePickerController/UIImagePickerController.html and check out this link

http://iphone.zcentric.com/2008/08/28/using-a-uiimagepickercontroller/

It has sample examples about the same.

You can use these methods to get the image in you UIImageView object

- (void)selectPhotos
{
    UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
    picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
    picker.delegate = self;
    [self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];
    //Deprecated In IOS6[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES]; 
    [picker release];
}

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
        didFinishPickingImage:(UIImage *)image
                  editingInfo:(NSDictionary *)editingInfo
{
    imageView.image = image;
    [[picker parentViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

Thanks Robin Nice and Simple. But isn't is possible that i read all the images stored in my library and display them onto my application without opening up the Built in Library.?? — Shah, Jul 13 '11 at 06:08
ook .. Is it possible that i can select multiple images form the library at once and get all those onto my application.? — Shah, Jul 13 '11 at 06:23
No you cant as you can see there is only one uiimage that can be fetched at a time so you dont have any other choice but to use it multiple no. of times. — Robin, Jul 13 '11 at 06:31
use [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL]; instead of [[picker parentViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]; — Ramdhas, Apr 05 '14 at 13:13

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '11 at 06:03

You can access the iPhone image library like this and select the image from there

if([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary])
        {
            if (picker == nil) {
                picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
                picker.allowsEditing = NO;

            }
            picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
            picker.delegate = self;
            // Make camera view full screen:
            picker.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES;
            [self.navigationController presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
        }

And then implement the delegate method to get the image...

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker1 didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{ 

    cameraClickedImage=[info valueForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];
     UIImage *thumbImage = [cameraClickedImage imageByScalingAndCroppingForSize:CGSizeMake(320, 480)];
    clickedImageView.image =thumbImage;
    [picker1 dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker1 {
    NSLog(@"Cap1");
    [picker1 dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}

Hope this will help you.......... Cheers......

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 06 '16 at 13:08

It works for me in the following way using iOS SDK 6.1 with Xcode 4.6.

First, make an UIImagePickerControllerDelegate protocol like that in your viewcontroller.h file:

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController<UIImagePickerControllerDelegate>

Then implement the following methods. I have a button named Choose:

- (IBAction)btnPicChooseTouched:(id)sender {
   UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc]init];
   picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
   picker.delegate = self;
   [self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}

-(void) imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info{
    imgProfilePic.image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];
    [picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

-(void) imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker{
    [picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

Display images from Gallery in iPhone

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