IOS UIImagePicker in a UIView subview - iphone

Question

I am trying to display a UIImagePicker from a programatically generated UIView that's added as a subview of the original view controller. The image picker comes up and so does the camera but the functionality breaks and nothing navigates properly. How do I properly load an image picker from a UIView and not a UIControlView?
code that breaks:
- (void)captureImage:(id)sender
{
[[[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:nil
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Close"
destructiveButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:#"Take photo", #"Camera Roll", nil]
showInView:self];
}
//UIImagePicker specific methods
-(void)actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
switch (buttonIndex)
{
case 0:
[self takePhoto];
break;
case 1:
[self fromCameraRoll];
break;
}
}
-(void)takePhoto
{
if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera] == YES)
{
// Create image picker controller
UIImagePickerController *imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
// Set source to the camera
imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
// Delegate is self
imagePicker.delegate = self;
// Show image picker
[self addSubview:imagePicker.view];
}
}
-(void)fromCameraRoll
{
UIImagePickerController *imgPicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imgPicker.delegate = self;
imgPicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
[self addSubview:imgPicker.view];
}
-(void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
// Access the uncropped image from info dictionary
UIImage *image = [info objectForKey:#"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];
//do something with the image
//add code to pick images here and store them in the preview
[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}
-(void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
{
[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}

Answer 1

UIImagePickerController is view controller class, you better present your image picker to your parent view controller by a delegate call or something like with an overlay subview to achieve your goal.
UIImagePickerController *imgPicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imgPicker.delegate = self;
imgPicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
CustomOverlayView *overlayview = [[CustomOverlayView alloc] init];
imgPicker.cameraOverlayView = overlayview;
[self presentModelViewController:imgPicker animated:YES];
add another delegate in your overlay class to dismiss your camera picker controller view
[imgPicker dismissModelViewControllerAnimated:YES];