Question

I have bug with UIImagePickerController which source type is camera. Sometimes after controller appeared, shutter is not opens up and I can’t to see a camera video signal, but photo taken is correct.

May be I doing something wrong? Code:

    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable: UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]){

            UIImagePickerController *cameraUI = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
            cameraUI.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
            cameraUI.allowsEditing = NO;
            cameraUI.showsCameraControls = NO;
            cameraUI.delegate = self;

            NSArray *nibObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"OverlayView" owner:self options:nil];
            UIView *controlsView = [nibObjects objectAtIndex:0];

            CGRect overlayViewFrame = cameraUI.cameraOverlayView.frame;
            CGRect controlsFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, CGRectGetHeight(overlayViewFrame) - 54.0,
                                         CGRectGetWidth(overlayViewFrame), 54.0);

            controlsView.frame = controlsFrame;
            [cameraUI.cameraOverlayView addSubview:controlsView];

            [self presentModalViewController: cameraUI animated: YES];            
    }

Answer 1

The same was happening to me after locking/unlocking the app, it looks like the shutter opens on viewDidAppear.

So, I subscribed my parent view controller to UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification and re-execute manually the viewWillAppear and viewDidAppear methods of the controller containing the UIImagePickerController

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(applicationBecomeActive)
                                             name:UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification
                                           object:nil];

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- (void)applicationBecomeActive {
    if (imagePicker_)
        [imagePicker_ openShutter];
}

And then on the controller containing the UIImagePickerController

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    [imagePickerController_ viewWillAppear:animated];
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [imagePickerController_ viewDidAppear:animated];
    imagePickerController_.cameraFlashMode = cameraFlashMode_;
    imagePickerController_.cameraDevice = cameraDevice_;
}
- (void)openShutter {
    [imagePickerController_ viewWillAppear:YES];
    [imagePickerController_ viewDidAppear:YES];
}

PS: If you try this, don’t forget to remove the observer

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];

Hope this helps