How may I check if my app has access to phone gallery

Question

I have an app in which I take a picture with the camera and store that image into the native gallery. But if the app doesn\'t have permission for that, I want the user to know t

Answer 1

You need to check the status of ALAssetLibrary make sure you have AssetsLibrary/AssetsLibrary.h included in your file

  ALAuthorizationStatus status = [ALAssetsLibrary authorizationStatus];

// check the status for ALAuthorizationStatusAuthorized or ALAuthorizationStatusDenied e.g

    if (status != ALAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) {
        //show alert for asking the user to give permission

    }