Xtykutl

I'm trying to pick both photos and videos from gallery.

I have done a few things like picked photos but not showing the videos. I have used BSImagepicker library and I have't found any video related thing in this library. If anyone have done such kind of work or know about any other library which picks both photos and videos please refer.

import UIKit

import Photos

import BSImageView

import BSImagePicker



class ViewController: UIViewController {

    let pickerController = BSImagePickerViewController()

    var SelectedAssets = [PHAsset]()

    var PhotoArray = [UIImage]()

    @IBOutlet var imageView: UIImageView!



    @IBAction func buttonAction(_ sender: Any) {

        pickImages()

    }



    func pickImages() {

        self.bs_presentImagePickerController(pickerController, animated: true, select: { (asset: PHAsset) in

        }, deselect: { (assets: PHAsset) in

        }, cancel: { (assets: [PHAsset]) in

        }, finish: { (assets: [PHAsset]) in

            for i in 0..<assets.count {

                self.SelectedAssets.append(assets[i])

            }

            self.convertAssetToImages()

        }, completion: nil)

    }



    func convertAssetToImages(){

        if SelectedAssets.count != 0 {

            for i in 0..<SelectedAssets.count {

                let manager = PHImageManager.default()

                let option = PHImageRequestOptions()

                var thumbnail = UIImage()

                option.isSynchronous = true

                manager.requestImage(for: SelectedAssets[i], targetSize: CGSize(width: 500, height: 500), contentMode: .aspectFit, options: option, resultHandler: { (result, info) in

                    thumbnail = result!

                })

                let data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(thumbnail, 0.7)

                let newImage = UIImage(data: data!)

                self.PhotoArray.append(newImage! as UIImage)

            }

            hcArray = PhotoArray

            self.imageView.animationImages = self.PhotoArray

            self.imageView.animationDuration = 3.0

            self.imageView.startAnimating()

        }

    }

}

Gallery is open source library in GitHub to select images as well as videos from photos in iOS.

https://github.com/hyperoslo/Gallery

Initialization:

GalleryController is the main entry point, just instantiate and give it the delegate.

let gallery = GalleryController()

gallery.delegate = self

present(gallery, animated: true, completion: nil)

Delegate:

The GalleryControllerDelegate requires you to implement some delegate methods in order to interact with the picker

func galleryController(_ controller: GalleryController, didSelectImages images: [Image])

func galleryController(_ controller: GalleryController, didSelectVideo video: Video)

func galleryController(_ controller: GalleryController, requestLightbox images: [Image])

func galleryControllerDidCancel(_ controller: GalleryController)

You are right, the designs of the libraries aren't great...

Here, Fresh out of the oven:
https://cocoapods.org/pods/CameraRoll

I'll add a readme and improve it but it works well.

first, add this to your plist

<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>

<string>To Find images</string>

Then Import

import CameraRoll

import Photos

Then when you want to use it,

   let cr = CameraRoll()

    // For pitures use .Image mode

    cr.present(in: self, mode: .Video) { (assets) in

        // Returns array of PHAsset

        }

    }

Use helper functions to convert

    let cr = CameraRoll()

    cr.present(in: self, mode: .Image) { (assets) in

        if let assets = assets, let first = assets.first {

            DispatchQueue.main.async {

                AssetManager.sharedInstance.getImageFromAsset(phAsset: first) { (image) in

                    self.imageView.image = image

                }

            }

        }

    }