iOS Showing camera within another view

[newtoiphonesdk]

I want to be able to present the camera on my view, but am having some issues. Is it better to use uiimagepickercontroller, or is there a better method? I simply am trying to emulate look of FaceTime, but it ceases if I try to alloc initwithframe, or instead of presenting the view in a modal controller adding as subview to current view. Is there a better way to do this?

 

[ppilone]

You can set an overlay view on UIImagePickerController. This way you can show the picker controller as you normally would but provide a custom overlay view that will shown on top.

If you want more control than UIImagePickerController offers you'll need to look at AVFoundation, specifically the AVCaptureSession and AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer.

 

[newtoiphonesdk]

I'm not talking about showing an overlay view...I'm talking about showing the camera in a small corner of the uiview, to emulate how FaceTime looks.

 

[ppilone]

You're going to have to dive into AVFoundation (and the classes I listed in my previous post) to pull that off. The UIImagPickerController is designed to be shown full screen - even with an overlay view.

You should be able to use the AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer to create a small view that displays video input. You'll want to read up on AVCaptureSession and check out some tutorials. It's not terribly difficult to configure a video input device with an AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer but if you've never worked with AVFoundation it can quickly become overwhelming.