Chapter 18

iPhone Camera and Photo Library

By now, it should come as no surprise to you that the iPhone and iPod touch each have a built-in camera (which the current iPad unfortunately lacks) and a nifty application called Photos to help you manage all those awesome pictures and videos you've taken. What you may not know is that your programs can use the built-in camera to take pictures and that your programs can also allow the user to select from among the media already stored on the device.

Because of the way iOS applications are sandboxed, applications ordinarily can't get to photographs or other data that live outside of their own sandboxes. Fortunately, both the camera and the media library are made available to your application by way ...

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