Presenting camera permission dialog in iOS 8
I'm running into a similar issue, if the user has denied camera access when they are first prompted, pressing the button to take snapshot results in a black screen in the camera mode.
However I want to detect that the user has declined access and prompt them it must be turned on but I can't find any functions to check the current user camera access, is there such a function?
EDIT: The following check will let you know in IOS 8 about camera access:
#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
AVAuthorizationStatus status = [AVCaptureDevice authorizationStatusForMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];
if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) { // authorized
}
else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusDenied){ // denied
}
else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusRestricted){ // restricted
}
else if(status == AVAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined){ // not determined
[AVCaptureDevice requestAccessForMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo completionHandler:^(BOOL granted) {
if(granted){ // Access has been granted ..do something
} else { // Access denied ..do something
}
}];
}
This information was found on the following question (How to know that application have camera access or not programmatically in iOS8):
Here is the approach we ended up using:
if ([AVCaptureDevice respondsToSelector:@selector(requestAccessForMediaType: completionHandler:)]) {
[AVCaptureDevice requestAccessForMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo completionHandler:^(BOOL granted) {
// Will get here on both iOS 7 & 8 even though camera permissions weren't required
// until iOS 8. So for iOS 7 permission will always be granted.
if (granted) {
// Permission has been granted. Use dispatch_async for any UI updating
// code because this block may be executed in a thread.
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[self doStuff];
});
} else {
// Permission has been denied.
}
}];
} else {
// We are on iOS <= 6. Just do what we need to do.
[self doStuff];
}