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Supertecnoboff
Supertecnoboff

Reputation: 6606

iOS 9 - Request Camera authorisation for photos

I have an app which needs to be able to take photos (not videos). I was looking online to find out how to detect if the user has granted permission to the camera.

After a while I found that you could use AVAuthorizationStatus to figure this out. However, on the Apple docs its says:

Calling this method with any media type other than AVMediaTypeVideo or AVMediaTypeAudio raises an exception.

So what if I want to take a photo then? How do I do that? There is no AVMediaTypePhoto and I have not been able to find out how to authorise camera access in any other way.

This is the authorisation example code I found online, but I don't know if it will work if you just want to take pictures.

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>

AVAuthorizationStatus status = [AVCaptureDevice authorizationStatusForMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];

    if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) { // authorized

    }
    else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusDenied){ // denied

    }
    else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusRestricted){ // restricted


    }
    else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined){ // not determined

        [AVCaptureDevice requestAccessForMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo completionHandler:^(BOOL granted) {
            if(granted){ // Access has been granted ..do something

            } else { // Access denied ..do something

            }
        }];
    }

Update 1

I was also looking into the PHPhotoLibrary framework, but that only provides access to the photo library, not the camera.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2924

Answers (3)

stan liu
stan liu

Reputation: 1882

With iOS 9, You should enter your app name with key: "Bundle Display Name" in Info.plist.

Thanks to this https://stackoverflow.com/a/32880876/4628777

Change this

Info.plist

to this

Info.plist

Upvotes: 2

Bhuvan Bhatt
Bhuvan Bhatt

Reputation: 3476

Set CFBundleDisplayName = "AppName" in Info.plist for iOS 9

Upvotes: 0

Supertecnoboff
Supertecnoboff

Reputation: 6606

Yes the code in my question does work, I was just being stupid and testing it on the iOS simulator and not on a real iDevice...... I think I need a coffee break :)

Upvotes: 1

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