iPhone - Detecting if the iDevice has a front camera

Question

Apple recommends not searching for hardware version, but for the specific feature in which you are interested.

So how may I detect if there is a front camera on the device to be able to disable some features ?

[UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable: UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera] only tells that there is a camera somewhere.

Answer 1

Try this method of UIImagePickerController:

+ (BOOL)isCameraDeviceAvailable:(UIImagePickerControllerCameraDevice)cameraDevice

This is a class method and UIImagePickerControllerCameraDevice can take two values:

• UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceRear
• UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront

Example code:

if( [UIImagePickerController isCameraDeviceAvailable: UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront ]) {    // do something } 

Note that this is available for iOS 4.0 and later.