See the overall rationale in the readme in the parent folder.
Created to test using the camera and photo library within an iMessage extension.
This has been cause of problems in the past due to assorted bugs.
Note that this does not do any custom sending of photos - the photos are only sent within the Message layout, as if you'd used Apple's own photo iMessage app or another app such as infltr, or sent as an attachment.
Important note that the sendAttachment does not send a custom message so when it arrives you can't tell that it came from imPhoto.
There's a bug in XCode 10.1 where just adding the plist key NSCameraUsageDescription and debugging will cause your app to crash on exit, which means as you call dismiss to transfer control back to iMessage.
Message from debugger: Terminated due to signal 9
- You cannot use the debugger for camera testing.
- You need to have a separate
info.plistfor Release and Debug builds.
Use the MessagesExtension runRelease scheme when testing, to quickly push a Release build (with camera enabled) to your device but remember you cannot debug it in XCode
There are a couple of icons from icons8 used here for the UI and to compose the app icons. Whilst I have a paid license, they should not be re-used in this sample code without attribution as per this clause.
Created duplicating imUrlData and renaming everything
Sample PhotoPicker used to help understand how to use the UIImagePickerController.