[Interest] Qt iOS - HowTo get access to Images stored at device

[Jeffrey Brendecke]

> On 26. Oct 2017, at 16:11, Shawn Rutledge <Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 26 Oct 2017, at 15:12, ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Jeffrey,
>> 
>> thx
>> 
>> at the moment it's ok for me to use 
>> QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation).last()
>> 
>> Using Objective-C++ Photos framework would give some more comfort,
>> but wouldn't help to access these Photos from QML
> 
> From QML, the QtQuick.Dialogs FileDialog has special support for getting a native photo picker:
> 
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-dialogs-filedialog.html#folder-prop
> 
>> it seems that there's no way to construct an URL in QML to access files from assets-library
>> so probably the best way is to write an ImageProvider to access these Images from QML
> 
> After you choose the photo, you will get a URL which works AFAIK.
> 
> The code is in qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/ios/optional/nsphotolibrarysupport/qiosfileengineassetslibrary.mm (called from qiosfiledialog.mm)
> 
>> Am 26.10.17 um 14:52 schrieb Jeffrey Brendecke:
>>> 
>>>> On 26. Oct 2017, at 13:10, interest-request at qt-project.org wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Hello Ekke,
>>> 
>>> It looks like the Asset Library Framework has been deprecated as of iOS 9:
>>> 
>>> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photos/phasset?language=objc
>>> 
>>> The new way to access the assets is through the Photos framework. The above link contains links to the relevant classes. The Photos framework is feature rich and allows you to access images separate from their adjustment data or with the adjustments applied.
> 
> If you think Qt is using the deprecated API, and needs to be updated, you can write up a bug about it.
> 

I just logged the following bug after having searched to see if this had been reported before:

https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?filter=-5&jql=resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20text%20~%20%22assets%22%20order%20by%20priority%20DESC%2Cupdated%20DESC