Saving photos to custom library

Question

My problem is really annoying. I'm creating app which takes photos and need to save them to custom gallery. I've found a couple of tutorials how to do this with AlAssetsLibrary but there is one, big problem... There is no saveImage:toAlbum:withCompletionBlock: method. I've used addAssetsGroupAlbumWithName:resultBlock:failureBlock: to create custom photo album but there is no way I can save images to this gallery! I'm using iOS 6 iPhone 4.

Any ideas!?

Answer 1

The method you mentioned in the question saveImage:toAlbum:withCompletionBlock is not part of ALAssetsLibrary. This method is written in ALAssetLibary's category. You got to import the category in your class to use the method.

To learn more about objective C category , check out the developer reference.

Answer 2

Look at here:

http://www.touch-code-magazine.com/ios5-saving-photos-in-custom-photo-album-category-for-download/

And there is a Stackoverflow Thread here: Save Photos to Custom Album in iPhones Photo Library

Answer 3

If you are using AssetsLibrary you can write this code

- (void) actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
    UIImagePickerController *imagePicker;

    if (buttonIndex < 2)    
    {           
        self.library = [[[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init] autorelease];
        
        self.imageEditor = [[[DemoImageEditor alloc] initWithNibName:@"DemoImageEditor" bundle:nil] autorelease];
        
        self.imageEditor.doneCallback = ^(UIImage *editedImage, BOOL canceled){

            if(!canceled)
            {
                anotherImage = true;
                
                NSString *imageName;
               
                imageName =@"Abc.jpg";
                
                UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(editedImage, self, @selector(image:didFinishSavingWithError:contextInfo:), nil);      

                editedImage = [self scaleImage:editedImage toSize:CGSizeMake(600,600)];

                 [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:UIImagePNGRepresentation(editedImage)forKey:@"image"];

}

- (void)image:(UIImage *)image didFinishSavingWithError:(NSError *)error contextInfo:(void *)contextInfo
{
    UIAlertView *alert;
    
        if (error)

        alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" 
                                           message:@"Unable to save image to Photo Album." 
                                          delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" 
                                 otherButtonTitles:nil];

    else 

        alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Success" 
                                           message:@"Image saved to Photo Album." 
                                          delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" 
                                 otherButtonTitles:nil];

    [alert release];
}

It will solve your case.