SLComposeViewController should optionally provide a UI for taking photos

Originator:amorya
Number:rdar://13949076 Date Originated:21-May-2013 03:34 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iPhone/iPod touch Product Version:6.1
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Not Applicable
 
A reasonably common way to share things on Facebook is for the user to share a URL augmented with a photograph the user has taken.

I would like SLComposeViewController to have a new property, BOOL allowsUserGeneratedPhoto. When this property is set to YES, and the SLComposeViewController is presented, there will be a new button on the SLComposeViewController that looks like a camera. Pressing this button will allow the user to take a photo or to choose one from their photo library. If they do this, the photo will be attached to that post.

If a photo is attached in this manner, it should be previewed as a thumbnail in the SLComposeViewController, and there should be a way to remove it again (by tapping it maybe?). When the SLComposeViewController is posted, the image should be uploaded to Facebook, and the image[0][user_generated] API property should be set to true (so that Facebook knows that this is a user generated image).

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Facebook bug report

I asked Facebook for the same thing in their Share dialog (new in Facebook iOS SDK 3.5):

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/533328333393926

By amorya at May 21, 2013, 2:57 p.m. (reply...)

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