CTAssetsPickerController

Introduction

CTAssetsPickerController is an iOS controller that allows picking multiple photos and videos from user's photo library. The usage and look-and-feel are just similar to UIImagePickerController. It uses ARC and requires Photos framework.

Features

1. Picks multiple photos and videos across albums from user's library.
2. Previews assets by long-press gesture.
3. Filters assets for picking only photos or videos.
4. Filters assets or albums by their properties.
5. Support assets stored in iCloud.
6. Achieves average 5x fps.
7. Conforms UIAppearance Protocol.
8. Conforms UIAccessibility Protocol.
9. Highly customisable.
10. Pure Auto Layout. (by PureLayout)

Release Notes

• Release Notes

Minimum Requirement

iOS 9 SDK

Adding to your project

1. CocoaPods Podfile

   platform :ios, '8.0'
   pod 'CTAssetsPickerController',  '~> 3.0.0'
   

2. Manual Setup

Usages

1. Import header

   #import <CTAssetsPickerController/CTAssetsPickerController.h>

2. Create and present CTAssetsPickerController

   // request authorization status
   [PHPhotoLibrary requestAuthorization:^(PHAuthorizationStatus status){
       dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
           
           // init picker
           CTAssetsPickerController *picker = [[CTAssetsPickerController alloc] init];
       
           // set delegate
           picker.delegate = self;
           
           // Optionally present picker as a form sheet on iPad
           if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
               picker.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
           
           // present picker
           [self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];
       });
   }];

3. Implement didFinishPickingAssets delegate

   If the picker is presented by presentViewController:animated:completion: method, the delegate is responsible for dismissing the picker when the operation completes.

   - (void)assetsPickerController:(CTAssetsPickerController *)picker didFinishPickingAssets:(NSArray *)assets
   {
   // assets contains PHAsset objects.
   }

Customisation

Customisation can be done by setting properties or implementating delegate methods. See the demo project for the details.

Localisation

CTAssetsPicker.strings contains strings used in the picker. It will be included in CTAssetsPickerController.bundle automatically if you add the picker to your project by CocoaPods. You might translate the text or add your translation accordingly. PR is always welcomed if you add translation to the picker.

App Extensions

When using CTAssetsPickerController in an App Extension, #define CT_APP_EXTENSIONS to avoid using unavailable APIs.

Bonus

You may reuse the preview feature of the picker to view any assets. Just init a CTAssetsPageViewController with an array of assets and assign pageIndex property. Please refer to the demo app for the details.

NSArray *assets = @[asset1, asset2, asset3, ...];
CTAssetsPageViewController *vc = [[CTAssetsPageViewController alloc] initWithAssets:assets];
vc.pageIndex = assets.count - 1; // display the last asset 

[self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:YES];

Documentation

• Online documentation

Note

CTAssetsPickerController does not compress the picked photos and videos. You can retrieve the image or video data of picked assets by the PHImageManager object. Please refer the documentation of PHImageManager.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Clement CN Tsang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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