UIImagePickerController on iPad with IOS9

Question

Since iOS 9 and Xcode 7 I am no longer able to implemet a UIImagePickerController on an iPad (both device and simulator). The code below works on the iPad but only prior to iOS

Answer 1

You need to make sure you have the correct frame for your imageview and the contentmode for your imageview should be aspectfit and the image returned by the picker is of type [UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage]

[imageView setFrame:imageViewRect];
[imageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];

Swift:

 imageView.setFrame(imageViewRect)
 imageView.setContentMode(UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit)

and coming to the allowsEditing property, It is not related to photo selection.

It is a Boolean value indicating whether the user is allowed to edit a selected still image or movie.

If you want to select photos from camera library, then you need to modify the source type to

    picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;

Update:

LEts say you have selected one image and display it on the image view. I assume you have one imageview on the view, and the imageview frame is equal to the view frame. If the IB is of freeform , I assume the size 600x600 for the imageview frame in the IB.

if you simply do:

     _startImageView.image=_img;

The result will be:

Now let's make some changes to the image to be displayed in the imageview:

  CGRect scaledRect = AVMakeRectWithAspectRatioInsideRect(_img.size, CGRectMake(0, 0, self.startImageView.frame.size.width, self.startImageView.frame.size.height));
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(_startImageView.frame.size.width,_startImageView.frame.size.height));
 [_img drawInRect:scaledRect];
UIImage *scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

_startImageView.image=scaledImage;

and now the image will be:

The original image choosen is of size 640x426, when not scaled.

The original image choosen is of size 1536x1286 when scaled to max(with two finger zoom action).

As you can see, still there is no huge change in the image, it is because the image is already cropped/scaled by the time your imageview recieved the image!!!

So even though you try to do:

      [_img drawInRect:_startImageView.frame];

The image will not be drawn as per our need, as the image is already scaled right at them moment as the image given by the picker is the edited image.

Solution:

To fix this, you need to select the original image from picker in didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo: method

       info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

which gives you the image: