UIImagePickerController doesn't fill screen

Question

I'm adding a custom overlay to the UIImagePickerController and there is a persistant black bar at the bottom of the view. Here is my code to instantiate the controller.

- (UIImagePickerController *)imagePicker {
    if (_imagePicker) {
        return _imagePicker;
    }

    _imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
    _imagePicker.delegate = self;

    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]) {
        _imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;

        _imagePicker.showsCameraControls = NO;

        _imagePicker.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES;
        _imagePicker.navigationBarHidden = YES;
        _imagePicker.toolbarHidden = YES;

    } else {
        _imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
    }

    return _imagePicker;
}

The returned controller is displayed modally and works just fine (i.e. displays full screen) when I'm not hiding the camera controls.

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Thanks to Ole's suggestion I got it working with this code:

// Resize the camera preview
        _imagePicker.cameraViewTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0, 1.03);

A 3% increase in height worked just fine. When I add my custom toolbar at the bottom of the screen there is no longer a visible black bar across the window.

Answer 1

Scaling by a fixed value isn't a good idea... as I'm sure anyone who used the accepted answer here probably found out when the iPhone 5 came out.

Here's a code snippet to scale dynamically based on the screen resolution to eliminate the letter boxing.

// Device's screen size (ignoring rotation intentionally):
CGSize screenSize = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size;

// iOS is going to calculate a size which constrains the 4:3 aspect ratio
// to the screen size. We're basically mimicking that here to determine
// what size the system will likely display the image at on screen.
// NOTE: screenSize.width may seem odd in this calculation - but, remember,
// the devices only take 4:3 images when they are oriented *sideways*.
float cameraAspectRatio = 4.0 / 3.0;
float imageWidth = floorf(screenSize.width * cameraAspectRatio);
float scale = ceilf((screenSize.height / imageWidth) * 10.0) / 10.0;

self.ipc.cameraViewTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(scale, scale);