Create a customised UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary [closed]

Question

The path for the thumbnails of the images located in the iPhone is: /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/.MISC/ (or instead of 100APPLE we have 101APPLE, 102APPLE etc).

If I want to pick these images directly from these folders, what is the best way to improvise a nice picker like the one for UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary?

I have already seen some attempts using UITableView and UIPickerView. Any other ideas?

Any recommended TUTORIAL?

Answer 1

what is the best way?

I really don't know so ideas still welcome.

Any other ideas?

Yes. Using a thumbnail scrollview.

Any recommended TUTORIAL?

Not a tutorial but even better, sample code. Using sample code from Apple Developer: Autoscroll from ScrollViewSuite

Answer 2

I previously wrote "Your application runs in a sandbox. This means that directories like /private/var are not available to your application. It is therefore not possible to create a custom picker that looks directly in those folders."

This turns out not to be the case. I am totally surprised that iPhone applications do actually have access to most of the filesystem.