The Assets Library Module

This recipe uses the assets library module. Be sure to add it to your source file with @import AssetsLibrary.

Using the assets library may sound complicated, but there are strong underlying reasons why this is a best practice for working with image pickers. An image picker may return an asset URL without providing a direct image to use. Recipe 8-1 assumes that this is a possibility and offers a method to load an image from the assets library (loadImageFromAssetURL:into:). A typical URL looks something like this:

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assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=553F6592-43C9-45A0-B851-28A726727436&ext=JPG

This URL provides direct access to media.

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