Where is the image captured from iOS? - swift

Question

When using the default camera in swift, I use this to take the picture and then show it in an imageView:
#IBAction func takePhoto() {
let picker = UIImagePickerController()
picker.delegate = self
picker.sourceType = .Camera
self.presentViewController(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : AnyObject]) {
imageView.image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage
dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}
But I want to take the image that I just took and store that image in a constant, but I don't know what is the image I took. I have tried using this as the image
UIImage(named: UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage)
UIImage(named: "spect a string here") and UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage returns me a string so that is why I thought that could be the image, but it seems that it won't work.

Answer 1

You can say something like:
var photo = UIImage() // Accessible from anywhere in the class
#IBAction func takePhoto() {
let picker = UIImagePickerController()
picker.delegate = self
picker.sourceType = .Camera
self.presentViewController(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : AnyObject]) {
imageView.image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage
photo = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage // Assign `photo` to the image
}
In the above code, photo is a variable accessible from anywhere in the class. Therefore, it is accessible from all of your functions and handlers. info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage is the image from the camera, and in the code, you're changing the variable photo to the image from the camera. Now, the image from the camera is available later from anywhere in that class.