How to get image path from photo library and how to retrieve the image from photo library in iphone?

Question

I'm new to iphone. In my small application, how to get image path from photo library. I use this following code to getting images and placed in imageview.

-(IBAction) selectimage
{
UIImagePickerController *picker=[[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
picker.delegate=self;
picker.sourceType=UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum;
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
-(void) imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)UIPicker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *) info
{
[UIPicker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
imageview.image=[info objectForKey:"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];
    NSLog("Image Path=%@",imageview.image);
}

Its succefully placed to Imageview. But i cant get its imagepath. I'm using nslog("%@",imageview.image); it shows "Image Path=" in console. How can i get its path and how to retrieve photos from photo library. Any body help me. Thanks in advance.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage returns only the image's data, with no reference to its local storage. I haven't used it myself but I guess what you are looking for is

NSURL* localUrl = (NSURL *)[info valueForKey:UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL];

At least, it's the only way I know of to retrieve any URL.

To retrieve the image, have a look at this question. But also keep in mind, that you already have the image retrieved with

UIImage* image=(UIImage*)[info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];

so ask yourself if you really need this.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Oct 15 '11 at 11:06

Philipp Schlösser

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How to retrieve images. i used this code. its shows "assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000007&ext=JPG" in console. how to retrieve image. – akk Oct 15 '11 at 11:12
Have a look at [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837115/display-image-from-url-retrieved-from-alasset-in-iphone). But also keep in mind, that you already have the image (via UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage) so do you really need to access it this way? – Philipp Schlösser Oct 15 '11 at 11:22
anyway.. i need to place image to imageview and also change imageview when user wants to change photo. anycode u give me. also retrieve images. can u gve the code? – akk Oct 15 '11 at 11:26
I just gave you the link on how to retrieve the image. Look, I edited my question again and it answers you question exactly. If you have further problems, please post a new question. Thanks :) – Philipp Schlösser Oct 15 '11 at 11:32
One reason to reference the underlying asset is to create a thumbnail of the image using AVAssetImageGenerator. Otherwise, you have to scale the image returned from the original image. – Scott Ahten Apr 19 '16 at 17:30

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 05:52

Swift 3.0, You can get imageData from referenceURL by following way

let url = URL(string: "assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=1000000007&ext=JPG")
let asset = PHAsset.fetchAssets(withALAssetURLs: [url], options: nil)
guard let result = asset.firstObject else {
  return nil
}
let imageManager = PHImageManager.default()
var imageData: Data? = nil
imageManager.requestImageData(for: result, options: nil, resultHandler: { (data, string, orientation, dict) in
  imageData = data
})

How to get image path from photo library and how to retrieve the image from photo library in iphone?

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