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Hiya - in my Xamarin forms app the user is able to take photos (using a custom render) and videos (using the default camera recorder)
The media gets added to the assets library after capture.
I have a gallery of thumbnails for the user to preview. I want the user to be able to tap a thumbnail and launch the default viewer. (or delete from a menu item)
In ios what is the correct way to launch the default view for these media files? It's easy enough in Android - but how does one do this in ios?
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You could have a try to use PhotoKit in Xamarin.iOS, it displays all photos and videos in a thumbnail grid, it also allow user to edit the photo.
so i don't wan the users to have visibility of all the photos etc on the camera- just the ones they have taken in that "session" on this particular app
want to keep what the users see relevant to the work they are undertaking at that time.
In this demo,userCollections = PHCollection.FetchTopLevelUserCollections (null) this method will get all photo albums. var collection = (PHCollection)userCollections.ObjectAt (indexPath.Row); this method will get each album, you could choose which one you want to display.
So what i wound up using was Quicklook.
With the media before previewing had to copy it from the Assets Library to the mydocuments folder
Happy days.
Thank you for sharing this solution.