I would like to start front camera of the iPad when app starts.
How do I do it programmatically?
Please let me know.
See Question&Answers more detail:osI would like to start front camera of the iPad when app starts.
How do I do it programmatically?
Please let me know.
See Question&Answers more detail:osFirst thing you need to do is to detect if your device has got front-facing camera. For that you need to iterate through the video devices.
Try this method of UIImagePickerController
:
+ (BOOL)isCameraDeviceAvailable:(UIImagePickerControllerCameraDevice)cameraDevice
This is a class method and UIImagePickerControllerCameraDevice
can take two values:
- UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceRear
- UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront
Example code:
if( [UIImagePickerController isCameraDeviceAvailable: UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront ])
{
// do something
}
Note that this is available for iOS 4.0 and later.
Also I am not sure if there is any API's to start the front-facing camera up front. The camera always seems to start in the same mode that the user left it the last time it was used. Maybe by design Apple did not expose any API's to change this. Maybe Apple wanted the users to make a call on this.
Nevertheless you can atleast detect the availability of Fron Camera & provide your feature.