IOS: Why can't we select photos from photo gallery using this plugin?

jfversluis / FilePicker-Plugin-for-Xamarin-and-Windows

FilePicker Plugin for Xamarin and Windows

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IOS: Why can't we select photos from photo gallery using this plugin? #138

Closed muffadal53 closed 5 years ago

muffadal53 commented 5 years ago

In IOS, using FilePicker plugin why can't we select any photo/picture from photo gallery?

Specifications

NuGet package version: 2.1.18
Platform(s): IOS 12.3.1

vividos commented 5 years ago

I guess the reason is that it's difficult to map file picking to iOS features and dialogs. Apple has decided that the photo gallery is not something you can pick from using UIDocumentPickerViewController. You can take a look at James Montemagno's MediaPlugin (https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/MediaPlugin) meanwhile. I guess it's at some stage incorporated into Xamarin.Essentials eventually.