What is the path of photos album on iPhone device?

Question

I was trying to save a PNG file to photos albums folder on the iPhone device with a .png extension so that the transparency remains..

My question is: What is the path of photos album UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum function is using? I am using data write to file method..

Thanks

Solution 1

You can't access assets on the file system directly (assuming this isn't a jailbreak question). In addition to UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum, the Assets Library Framework provides access to the photo library if you're targeting newer versions of iOS.

Solution 2

Root/private/var/mobile/Media/DCMI/100APPLE

Comments

[tiw]

would using that framework help me save a file in png format to the albums folder in the photo library?

[Tommy]

@tiw: check out UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum — developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/referenc‌​e/…

[smparkes]

I think so. I don't believe there's a "copy file to asset" function but if you read the png into an NSData you can then use writeImageDataToSavedPhotosAlbum:metadata:completionBlock.

[Sankalp]

What is "Root"?

[Naloiko Eugene]

Yes, an old reply :) It was a jailbroken iPhone 3GS it seems