TGCameraViewController: An Objective-C repository from migore

Custom camera with AVFoundation. Beautiful, light and easy to integrate with iOS projects.

Completely custom camera with AVFoundation
Custom view with camera permission denied
Custom button colors
Easy way to access album (camera roll)
Flash auto, off and on
Focus
Front and back camera
Grid view
Preview photo view with three filters (fast processing)
Visual effects like Instagram iOS app
iPhone, iPod and iPad supported

This library can be applied on devices running iOS 7.0+.

Who use it

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Adding to your project

CocoaPods is the recommended way to add TGCameraViewController to your project.

Add a pod entry for TGCameraViewController to your Podfile:

pod 'TGCameraViewController'

Install the pod(s) by running:

pod install

Alternatively you can directly download the latest code version add drag and drop all files at TGCameraViewController folder onto your project.

Usage

Take photo

#import "TGCameraViewController.h"

@interface TGViewController : UIViewController <TGCameraDelegate>

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *photoView;

- (IBAction)takePhotoTapped;

@end



@implementation TGViewController

- (IBAction)takePhotoTapped
{
    TGCameraNavigationController *navigationController =
    [TGCameraNavigationController newWithCameraDelegate:self];

    [self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];
}

#pragma mark - TGCameraDelegate optional

- (void)cameraWillTakePhoto
{
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
}

- (void)cameraDidSavePhotoAtPath:(NSURL *)assetURL
{
    // When this method is implemented, an image will be saved on the user's device
    NSLog(@"%s album path: %@", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, assetURL);
}

- (void)cameraDidSavePhotoWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    NSLog(@"%s error: %@", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, error);
}

#pragma mark - TGCameraDelegate required

- (void)cameraDidCancel
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

- (void)cameraDidTakePhoto:(UIImage *)image
{
    _photoView.image = image;
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

- (void)cameraDidSelectAlbumPhoto:(UIImage *)image
{
    _photoView.image = image;
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

@end

Choose photo

#import "TGCameraViewController.h"

@interface TGViewController : UIViewController
<UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate>

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *photoView;

- (IBAction)chooseExistingPhotoTapped;

@end



@implementation TGViewController

- (IBAction)chooseExistingPhotoTapped
{
    UIImagePickerController *pickerController =
    [TGAlbum imagePickerControllerWithDelegate:self];

    [self presentViewController:pickerController animated:YES completion:nil];
}

#pragma mark - UIImagePickerControllerDelegate

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
    _photoView.image = [TGAlbum imageWithMediaInfo:info];
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

@end

Change colors

@implementation TGViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    
    UIColor *tintColor = [UIColor greenColor];
    [TGCameraColor setTintColor:tintColor];
}

@end

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
kTGCameraOptionHiddenToggleButton	NSNumber (YES/NO)	NO	Displays or hides the button that switches between the front and rear camera
kTGCameraOptionHiddenAlbumButton	NSNumber (YES/NO)	NO	Displays or hides the button that allows the user to select a photo from his/her album
kTGCameraOptionHiddenFilterButton	NSNumber (YES/NO)	NO	Displays or hides the button that allos the user to filter his/her photo
kTGCameraOptionSaveImageToAlbum	NSNumber (YES/NO)	NO	Save or not the photo in the camera roll

#import "TGCamera.h"

@implementation UIViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    //...
    [TGCamera setOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenToggleButton value:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]];
    [TGCamera setOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenAlbumButton value:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]];
    [TGCamera setOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenFilterButton value:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]];
    [TGCamera setOption:kTGCameraOptionSaveImageToAlbum value:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]];
    //...
}

- (IBAction)buttonTapped
{
    //...
    BOOL hiddenToggleButton = [[TGCamera getOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenToggleButton] boolValue];
    BOOL hiddenAlbumButton = [[TGCamera getOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenAlbumButton] boolValue];
    BOOL hiddenFilterButton = [[TGCamera getOption:kTGCameraOptionHiddenFilterButton] boolValue];
    BOOL saveToDevice = [[TGCamera getOption:kTGCameraOptionSaveImageToAlbum] boolValue];
    //...    
}

@end

Requirements

TGCameraViewController works on iOS 7.0+ version and is compatible with ARC projects. It depends on the following Apple frameworks, which should already be included with most Xcode templates:

AssetsLibrary.framework
AVFoundation.framework
CoreImage.framework
Foundation.framework
MobileCoreServices.framework
UIKit.framework

You will need LLVM 3.0 or later in order to build TGCameraViewController.

Todo

Landscape mode support
Zoom
Image size as global parameter
Fast animations
Create a custom picker controller
Zoom does not work with the camera roll pictures

License

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.

Change-log

A brief summary of each TGCameraViewController release can be found on the releases.

migore/TGCameraViewController