iOS 7 UIImagePicker preview black screen
ios, objective-c, uiimagepickercontroller
Solution
About 5 months ago my team discovered a memory leak with UIImageViewController in iOS7. Each instantiation slowed down the app exponentially (i.e. first alloc-init had a 1 second delay, second had a 2 second delay, third had a 5 second delay). Eventually, we were having 30-60 delays (similar to what you're experiencing).
We resolved the issue by subclassing UIImagePickerController and making it a Singleton. That way it was only ever initialized once. Now our delay is minimal and we avoid the leak. If subclassing isn't an option, try a class property in your viewController and just lazy load it like so.
-(UIImagePickerController *)imagePicker{
if(!_imagePicker){
_imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc]init];
_imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
}
return _imagePicker;
}
Then you can just call it later like:
[self presentViewController:self.imagePicker animated:YES completion:nil];
Problem
When i try to load camera from my code, camera preview is black. If I wait for 10-20 seconds it will show real camera preview. I found several questions and some of them suggest that running some other code in background should be the reason for this. However I don't have any code running in background. How should I fix this? This is my code where I run camera ``` UIImagePickerController *photoPicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init]; photoPicker.delegate = self; photoPicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera; [self presentViewController:photoPicker animated:YES completion:NULL]; ```