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Asked: 2026-05-11T23:27:42+00:00

I have to create a photo gallery app in iPhone. It should function same

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I have to create a photo gallery app in iPhone. It should function same as the Photos app which is shipped with iPhone. But it should show the images which I package with the app.

UIImagePickerController reads only the following source types.
UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary,
UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera,
UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum

I was thinking of adding the images bundle to the resources group in Xcode and make UIImagePickerController to read them and display.

Looking at the class references I found UIImagePickerController reads only from the resources mentioned above. Which means it can only pick the images from camera roll OR saved photo gallery OR allow user to take a pic and use it.

Does anybody know how to make UIImagePickerController read from custom source type or images?

OR

How to create a photo gallery app in iPhone 🙂

Thanks,
AJ

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t believe it is possible to make the UIImagePicker pick images from your own source. You will have to write the picker yourself (which, performance aside, doesn’t seem to hard… Just a couple of UIImageViews in a UIScrollView).

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