I am making an app that takes pictures with AVFoundation and I want to save them to a custom album that I can then query and show in my app. (I'd prefer to not have them in the general photo roll, unless the user wants that) I can't really find anything showing how to do this in Swift... or at all. Is there a different way I am supposed to do this?
I found this example on SO but it doesn't make sense to me and I can't get it to work.
func savePhoto() {
var albumFound : Bool = false
var assetCollection: PHAssetCollection!
var photosAsset: PHFetchResult!
var assetThumbnailSize:CGSize!
// Create the album if does not exist (in viewDidLoad)
if let first_Obj:AnyObject = collection.firstObject{
//found the album
self.albumFound = true
self.assetCollection = collection.firstObject as PHAssetCollection
}else{
//Album placeholder for the asset collection, used to reference collection in completion handler
var albumPlaceholder:PHObjectPlaceholder!
//create the folder
NSLog("\nFolder \"%@\" does not exist\nCreating now...", albumName)
PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({
let request = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetCollectionWithTitle(albumName)
albumPlaceholder = request.placeholderForCreatedAssetCollection
},
completionHandler: {(success:Bool, error:NSError!)in
NSLog("Creation of folder -> %@", (success ? "Success":"Error!"))
self.albumFound = (success ? true:false)
if(success){
let collection = PHAssetCollection.fetchAssetCollectionsWithLocalIdentifiers([albumPlaceholder.localIdentifier], options: nil)
self.assetCollection = collection?.firstObject as PHAssetCollection
}
})
}
let bundle = NSBundle.mainBundle()
let myFilePath = bundle.pathForResource("highlight1", ofType: "mov")
let videoURL:NSURL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(myFilePath!)!
let priority = DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(priority, 0), {
PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({
//let createAssetRequest = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage
let createAssetRequest = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromVideoAtFileURL(videoURL)
let assetPlaceholder = createAssetRequest.placeholderForCreatedAsset
let albumChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest(forAssetCollection: self.assetCollection, assets: self.photosAsset)
albumChangeRequest.addAssets([assetPlaceholder])
}, completionHandler: {(success, error)in
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
NSLog("Adding Image to Library -> %@", (success ? "Sucess":"Error!"))
//picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
})
})
})
}
Any help/explanations would be great!
This is how I do:
At the top:
import Photos
var image: UIImage!
var assetCollection: PHAssetCollection!
var albumFound : Bool = false
var photosAsset: PHFetchResult!
var assetThumbnailSize:CGSize!
var collection: PHAssetCollection!
var assetCollectionPlaceholder: PHObjectPlaceholder!
Creating the album:
func createAlbum() {
//Get PHFetch Options
let fetchOptions = PHFetchOptions()
fetchOptions.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "title = %@", "camcam")
let collection : PHFetchResult = PHAssetCollection.fetchAssetCollectionsWithType(.Album, subtype: .Any, options: fetchOptions)
//Check return value - If found, then get the first album out
if let _: AnyObject = collection.firstObject {
self.albumFound = true
assetCollection = collection.firstObject as! PHAssetCollection
} else {
//If not found - Then create a new album
PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({
let createAlbumRequest : PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetCollectionWithTitle("camcam")
self.assetCollectionPlaceholder = createAlbumRequest.placeholderForCreatedAssetCollection
}, completionHandler: { success, error in
self.albumFound = success
if (success) {
let collectionFetchResult = PHAssetCollection.fetchAssetCollectionsWithLocalIdentifiers([self.assetCollectionPlaceholder.localIdentifier], options: nil)
print(collectionFetchResult)
self.assetCollection = collectionFetchResult.firstObject as! PHAssetCollection
}
})
}
}
When saving the photo:
func saveImage(){
PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({
let assetRequest = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage(self.image)
let assetPlaceholder = assetRequest.placeholderForCreatedAsset
let albumChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest(forAssetCollection: self.assetCollection, assets: self.photosAsset)
albumChangeRequest!.addAssets([assetPlaceholder!])
}, completionHandler: { success, error in
print("added image to album")
print(error)
self.showImages()
})
}
Showing the images from that album:
func showImages() {
//This will fetch all the assets in the collection
let assets : PHFetchResult = PHAsset.fetchAssetsInAssetCollection(assetCollection, options: nil)
print(assets)
let imageManager = PHCachingImageManager()
//Enumerating objects to get a chached image - This is to save loading time
assets.enumerateObjectsUsingBlock{(object: AnyObject!,
count: Int,
stop: UnsafeMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) in
if object is PHAsset {
let asset = object as! PHAsset
print(asset)
let imageSize = CGSize(width: asset.pixelWidth, height: asset.pixelHeight)
let options = PHImageRequestOptions()
options.deliveryMode = .FastFormat
imageManager.requestImageForAsset(asset, targetSize: imageSize, contentMode: .AspectFill, options: options, resultHandler: {(image: UIImage?,
info: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) in
print(info)
print(image)
})
}
}