I want to get my photos and videos from iPhone on my laptop.
I realized, that I am not able to save with on Mac with Photos app (it adds a sequentially name to the photo..)
and with iCloud there is no option to download all photos together. (Apple-prison).
I found the way after a lot of research and probation:
Workaround 1 - iPhone side
On iPhone with Dropbox app you can upload photos and videos to the cloud, and then you can download them anywhere you wish (even with the free version).
Dropbox is clever enough (not like Mac's Photos app...), to use camera time for naming. So your file names will be a timestamp when you have taken the picture OR video AKA Exif data).
Workaround 2 - desktop machine side
You can use Photos app (on Macbooks), because with cable it is obviously faster than uploading to Dropbox through wifi.
But... Photos app is so "old-school", that when you export photos, it will not use your Exif data as filenames, it will create a sequence, like IMG_6033.mov rather..
images, you can use Exif-renamer app (available in the app-store).
It is free, and it can rename all images in a folder to the timestamp from Exif data.
Unfortunately, it can not rename videos..
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rename-with-exif/id1469032019?mt=12
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I have an app where users take images and they are saved along with user notes. Per the following link this is what I was using to save the images to the app. The issues is when some users update the app the images are lost.
Phonegap - Retrieve photo from Camera Roll via path
per the bosses instructions the users aren't allowed to browse the gallery for images as they are being used as proof of work performed (small company, 5-12 employees using the app).
is there any way for iphone to relay back to the app the actuall image location on the camera roll like android does? Then I can just save the URI to the database and call it when the form is submitted...
Thanks
You need to use
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURI()
to convert the filelocation to a fileentry or else your filepath will contain the App UUID which changes when you update/deploy your app.
I have ~3200 photos on my iPhone over 2 years and would like to create an app that analyzes and plots when I took these pictures (ex: I was very actively photographing for a week, and then stopped). Is there a way to do bulk processing of camera roll photos on iPhone(with user permission) to extract timestamps of photos?
I think if I back up my photos to my mac with the "image capture" app, I can do this kind of metric analysis with a Mac app, but the import process would take hours and I'm looking for something simpler.
Take a look at ALAssetsLibrary
An instance of ALAssetsLibrary provides access to the videos and
photos that are under the control of the Photos application.
Here is sample application PhotosByLocationn.
Demonstrates how to use the AssetsLibrary APIs to provide a custom
image picking UI. The user experience is centered around the idea of
using the assets location and time metadata as a basis for certain
features.
Yes you can use the Assets Library for this.
This fill allow you acces to the image on the users device.
I know the various ways to save a UIImage to the photo library:
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum
ALAssetsLibrary
However, my images are HUGE (60mb+), so bringing them into memory is not possible. I can download the images by streaming them to disk, and even use imageWithContentsOfFile to take a peek (although that is kind of unnecessary given screen size).
But I want the user to be able to save these images for later. Is there anyway for me to get these large images into the photo library? Do I just have to keep them stored locally inside the app sandbox?
I believe that there is no point at storing them at the photo library, since it is designed to be viewed on the device and theres no point at viewing an image so big. If you want to let the user see the image then i suggest you create a preview and save THAT version into the photo library. If you want to let the user transfer them from the device to the computer there is a special folder in your app bundle which will allow those pictures to appear when using itunes and selecting your application. then he can transfer those pictures to his computer. Also could you elaborate on the characteristics of the images? format, dimentions, purpose, etc.
I haven't found any documentation on this or seen this done before, but is there anyway I can, instead of just choosing one image with UIImagePicker, load the user's albums, and then after selecting an image, that image displays, but also allows me to scroll left and ride to see all the images before and after that image?
I know I can use a multiple image picker, but that involves importing all the user's photos, and if the user has hundreds of photos, this would take a lot of time. I'm looking for similar functionality to the real photos app- the performance and everything. Any ideas?
Yes, you can. Look at the documentation for ALAssetsLibrary. This will allow you to enumerate all the user's image (and video) libraries. From this, you get ALAssets, which you can ask for their default ALAssetRepresentation. This one, in turn, you ask for its CGImage, from which you can create a UIImage.
Enumerating Libraries and Assets is done in blocks, which can easily be done in the background.
Use the assets library: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AssetsLibrary/Reference/ALAssetsLibrary_Class/Reference/Reference.html
An instance of ALAssetsLibrary provides access to the videos and
photos that are under the control of the Photos application.
The library includes those that are in the Saved Photos album, those
coming from iTunes, and those that were directly imported into the
device. You use it to retrieve the list of all asset groups and to
save images and videos into the Saved Photos album.
note: only available in ios 4+
I'm creating a catalog/collection ios4 application. One element of the app lets the user take a picture which they use for a new item entry. The image they choose is then saved to their app's local Document folder.
I was wondering if it's possible to give the user the ability to import the photos to their desktop when they plug in their ios device. Like how iPhoto lets you import photos from your camera roll when you plug in your device
I've looked around, and all i can seem to find are posts on saving to the documents folder, and then retrieving the data within the app.
Any help would be great.
Thanks Ian
You could use an intermediate web service to transfer the files. Upload them to your service from the device, download them to the desktop.
Apple locks this stuff down pretty tight, so that might be your best bet.