How to create smaller mini camera view like in Tumblr iPhone app image picker

Question

I would like to know how Tumblr app is adding a mini camera live view on collection view cell in their app? Is it UIImagePickerController of type camera resized? I would be glad if someone could give more idea on this implementation?

Answer 1

If you want to do that, you're going to have to use AVFoundation. You can size and position the AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer however you'd like.