How to save camera photo to your app directory instead of the photo album?

[mistergreen2011]

I'm reading up on the UIImagePickerController and its delegate. It seems like the photo you take goes into the device's photo album.
I need to access the photo I take in my app so I need in with the app. How do I do this? Override some method?

Thanks.

[shan]

Here is a function to save an image to the Documents folder. Just pull the image in the delegate

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info{
	UIImage *image = (UIImage *)[info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];	 

	[self saveImagePNG:image withName:@"someimagename.png"];
}

Here is the method to save the image:

#define DOCSFOLDER [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"]

- (void) saveImagePNG:(UIImage *)image withName:(NSString *)imageName{
	
	//get the image data
	NSData *tempData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);
	
	//save it to the documents folder
	NSString *filePath = [DOCSFOLDER stringByAppendingPathComponent:imageName];
	[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:filePath contents:tempData attributes:nil];
	
}

[dustbyter]

Thanks for the example.

Handy code sample to have in the toolkit.