CODEWITHSUNDEEP
iphoneiosobjective-c
user2109312
user2109312

Reputation: 51

How do I save a gif to my photo album?

I've tried using UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum and ALAssetsLibrary to save my gif to the photo album. But when I try to email the gif it does not animate. I'm pretty sure the meta data is being lost when it gets saved. Does anyone know how I can preserve the gif meta data?

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4581

Answers (2)

junaidsidhu
junaidsidhu

Reputation: 3580

GIF can be easily saved from URL to Album

let url = FileManager.default.urlForFile("lion.gif") // Document Directory or Bundle url path 

PHPhotoLibrary.shared().performChanges ({
    PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage(atFileURL: url)
}) { saved, error in
    if saved {
        print("Your image was successfully saved")
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Haris Hussain
Haris Hussain

Reputation: 2581

Quite an old question, but it might help someone!

I use this code to save GIF in photo album and it works fine, tested by opening GIF in MailViewComposer and iMessage.

ALAssetsLibrary *library = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];

NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:tempPath]; // Your GIF file path which you might have saved in NSDocumentDir or NSTempDir

[library writeImageDataToSavedPhotosAlbum:data metadata:nil completionBlock:^(NSURL *assetURL, NSError *error) {
    if (error) {
        NSLog(@"Error Saving GIF to Photo Album: %@", error);
    } else {
        // TODO: success handling
        NSLog(@"GIF Saved to %@", assetURL);

        success(tempPath);
    }
}];

Upvotes: 5

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