How do you save a picture from the capture-screen with AVCaptureSession to Photo? My capture-screen looks like a square as show below.
Yet I've ended up with an 1080 × 1920 image as shown below. I have an iPhone XR, and I always end up with 1080 × 1920 images. How come the aspect ration never changes?
My code has the following lines
import UIKit
import AVFoundation
class CaptureViewController: UIViewController, AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate {
var captureSession: AVCaptureSession!
var cameraDevices: AVCaptureDevice!
var imagePhotoOutput: AVCapturePhotoOutput!
enum CameraCase {
case front
case back
}
// MARK: - IBAction
@IBAction func takePictureTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {
snapPicture()
}
// MARK: - Life cycle
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
prepareCamera(cameraCase: .back)
}
// MARK: - Camera
func prepareCamera(cameraCase: CameraCase) {
/* removing existing layers */
if let sublayers = self.view.layer.sublayers {
for sublayer in sublayers {
if sublayer.isKind(of: AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer.self) {
sublayer.removeFromSuperlayer()
}
}
}
/* creating a capture session */
captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
guard let device = AVCaptureDevice.DiscoverySession(deviceTypes: [.builtInWideAngleCamera], mediaType: AVMediaType.video, position: cameraCase == .front ? .front : .back).devices.first else { return }
let videoInput = try? AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: device)
if captureSession.canAddInput(videoInput!) {
captureSession.addInput(videoInput!)
imagePhotoOutput = AVCapturePhotoOutput() // setting output destination
captureSession.addOutput(imagePhotoOutput) // adding photo output to session
}
/* creating a capture layer */
let previewLayer: AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer.init(session: captureSession)
previewLayer.frame = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 200.0, width: view.frame.width, height: view.frame.height - 500.0)
previewLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resize
/* adding video capture layer to the view layer */
self.view.layer.addSublayer(previewLayer)
/* starting capture session */
DispatchQueue.global(qos: .background).async {
self.captureSession.startRunning()
}
}
func snapPicture() {
let settingsForMonitoring = AVCapturePhotoSettings()
imagePhotoOutput?.capturePhoto(with: settingsForMonitoring, delegate: self as AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate)
}
// MARK: - Delegate methods
func photoOutput(_ output: AVCapturePhotoOutput, didFinishProcessingPhoto photo: AVCapturePhoto, error: Error?) {
if error == nil {
guard let imageData = photo.fileDataRepresentation() else {
print("Error while generating image from photo capture data.");
return
}
if let image = UIImage(data: imageData) {
saveImage(image)
}
}
}
// MARK: - Saving an image to Photo Library
func saveImage(_ image: UIImage) {
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image, self, #selector(image(_:didFinishSavingWithError: contextInfo:)), nil)
}
@objc func image(_ image: UIImage, didFinishSavingWithError error: Error?, contextInfo: UnsafeRawPointer) {
if let error = error {
print("An error has occurred: \(error.localizedDescription)")
} else {
print("Saved...")
}
}
}
Thanks.