Does anybody know how I can get a live camera feed into an UIImageView
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I have a custom UI where I need to show the camera feed (front facing camera) so I cannot use the UIImagePickerControl
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Does anybody know how I can get a live camera feed into an UIImageView
?
I have a custom UI where I need to show the camera feed (front facing camera) so I cannot use the UIImagePickerControl
.
You need to create a capture session, and start it running. Once that's done you can add the layer from the capture session to your view:
- (void)setupCaptureSession
{
NSError* error = nil;
// Create the session
_captureSession = [[AVCaptureSession alloc] init];
_captureSession.sessionPreset = AVCaptureSessionPresetMedium;
AVCaptureDevice* device = [AVCaptureDevice defaultDeviceWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];
AVCaptureDeviceInput* input = [AVCaptureDeviceInput deviceInputWithDevice:device error:&error];
[_captureSession addInput:input];
AVCaptureVideoDataOutput* output = [[AVCaptureVideoDataOutput alloc] init];
[_captureSession addOutput:output];
// Configure your output.
dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("myCameraOutputQueue", NULL);
//If you want to sebsequently use the data, then implement the delegate.
[output setSampleBufferDelegate:self queue:queue];
}
Having done that, you can create a preview layer as follows:
_previewLayer = [AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer layerWithSession:_captureSession];
[_captureSession startRunning];
And then add the preview layer to your view:
_myView.layer addSubLayer:_previewLayer];