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Ahmad Sahar
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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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Creating a new UIImagePickerController instance

To make it easy for a user to use the camera or photo library, Apple implemented the UIImagePickerController class. This class manages the system interfaces for taking photos and choosing items from the user’s photo library. An instance of this class is called an image picker controller.

If you have ever added a photo to a social media post, you will have seen what the image picker controller looks like. It typically displays either the view from your camera or a grid of photos from your photo library, and you can then choose a photo to be added to your post:

Figure 20.1: Simulator showing image picker controller

To learn more about the UIImagePickerController class, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimagepickercontroller.

To display the image picker controller in the Add New Journal Entry screen, you’ll add a UITapGestureRecognizer instance, or tap gesture recognizer...

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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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