swift: How to load photos from photo library without using UIImagePickerController?

Question

I am using swift to load images from photo library. I know that I can use UIImagePickerController to let user to choose the images from camera roll but I want to access phot

Answer 1

You can access photo library using Photos framework(for iOS 8+). Take a look at this example. In AAPLRootListViewController's code if awakeFromNib method you can see how to create PHFetchResult object to retrieve specific photos data. Then, in AAPLAssetGridViewController, PHAsset objects(from PHFetchResult) are used for retrieving actual image data. Take a look at method

- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

The code is written in Objective-C rather than Swift, but you could do the same using Swift. Ask questions if any.