Neat API for presenting the classical action sheet for picking an image or video from the device or camera.

We know that presenting the famous action sheet for picking media is pretty common in most of iOS apps. However, achieving that functionality usually requires for you to write lots of boilerplate code, in which you're very likely to encounter awful things along the way (like kUTTypeImage or info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage], just to mention).

MediaPickerController acts as a layer between your UIViewController instance and the iOS native APIs for handling media picking (provided by AVFoundation and MobileCoreServices).

By using this class, you won't ever have to worry about writing the aforementioned boilerplate code; this class handles all of that internally for you, providing a clean and elegant API that you can use in your UIViewControllers with just a few lines of code.

• Two modes allowed: Take an image, or take an image or video.
• When picking an image, you get the UIImage object directly.
• When picking a video, you get the NSData representing the video, plus the NSURL where it's allocated in the device, and a UIImage object representing a thumbnail image preview of the video.
• Automatic detection of device capabilities: Action sheet options for taking media from camera are automatically disabled (not showed) if the device doesn't have one.

You only have to worry about 4 simple things:

• Initializing a MediaPickerController object.
• Setting its delegate to be your UIViewController class.
• Calling the show() method whenever you want to pick media.
• Conforming to the MediaPickerControllerDelegate protocol and using the results within the methods it provides.

Here's the ViewController class that comes as an example with the project:

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    
    @IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet weak var statusLabel: UILabel!
    
    var mediaPickerController: MediaPickerController!
    
    // MARK: - Lifecycle
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.mediaPickerController = MediaPickerController(type: .imageAndVideo, presentingViewController: self)
        self.mediaPickerController.delegate = self
    }
    
    // MARK: - IBAction

    @IBAction func pickMedia(_ sender: UIBarButtonItem) {
        self.mediaPickerController.show()
    }

}

extension ViewController: MediaPickerControllerDelegate {
    
    func mediaPickerControllerDidPickImage(_ image: UIImage) {
        self.statusLabel.text = "Picked Image\nPreview:"
        self.imageView.image = image
    }
    
    func mediaPickerControllerDidPickVideo(url: URL, data: Data, thumbnail: UIImage) {
        self.statusLabel.text = "Picked Video\nURL in device: \(url.absoluteString)\nThumbnail Preview:"
        self.imageView.image = thumbnail
    }
    
}

You can just clone the repo and copy the MediaPickerController folder to your project, or install it through cocoapods to keep it up to date.

• As of its 2.0.0 release, this library works with Swift 3.0
• If you look for older languages version support, you can check out:
  • 1.1.0 release for Swift 2.3 support.
  • 1.0.2 release for Swift 2.2 support.

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If you find any bugs or have a problem while using this library, please open an issue in this repo (or a pull request).

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