How can I take a photo with my iPhone app?

Question

I\'m writing an iPhone app with Cocoa in xcode. I can\'t find any tutorials or sample code that shows how to take photos with the built in camera. How do I do this? Where can

Answer 1

Answer posted by @WQS works fine, but contains some methods that are deprecated from iOS 6. Here is the updated answer for iOS 6 & above:

-(void)takePhoto
{
    UIImagePickerController *imagePickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];

    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera])
    {
        [imagePickerController setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera];
    }

    // image picker needs a delegate,
    [imagePickerController setDelegate:self];

    // Place image picker on the screen
    [self presentViewController:imagePickerController animated:YES completion:nil];
}



-(void)chooseFromLibrary
{

    UIImagePickerController *imagePickerController= [[UIImagePickerController alloc]init];
    [imagePickerController setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary];

    // image picker needs a delegate so we can respond to its messages
    [imagePickerController setDelegate:self];

    // Place image picker on the screen
    [self presentViewController:imagePickerController animated:YES completion:nil];

}

//delegate methode will be called after picking photo either from camera or library
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
    UIImage *image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

[myImageView setImage:image];    // "myImageView" name of any UImageView.
}

Don't Forget to add this in your view controller.h :

@interface myVC