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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers
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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

by Joe Masilotti
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Access the Camera and Photos on iOS

Mobile apps often want access to information stored on the user’s device, such as when using the camera or photo library for image uploads. This is another area where Hotwire Native shines. We can trigger fully baked, native flows without writing any native code. All we need is the right HTML markup—iOS will take care of the rest!

Run the iOS app from Xcode and sign in. Then tap “Add a hike” and, to set the image, tap the Choose File button in the form.

Two iOS simulators - the left showing a native dialog prompting the user to select where an image should be uploaded from and the right showing the Photo Library with their photos.

 

Select a photo from the library, give it a name and description, and click Save, as shown in the screenshot.

And you have a fully featured image uploader ...

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