Setting the image taken from the gallery to the UIImageView

Question

The problem am facing is placing the picture i choose from the gallery into theUIImageView (imageChosen).

The code runs fine without any errors but the picture i chose is not set to the "imageChosen"

here is my code

class postChoices: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var imageChosen: UIImageView!

    @IBAction func gallery(sender: AnyObject) {

        var image = UIImagePickerController()
        //image.delegate = self
        image.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.PhotoLibrary
        image.allowsEditing = false

        self.presentViewController(image, animated: true, completion: nil)

    }
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

            // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController!, didFinishPickingImage image2: UIImageView!, editingInfo: NSDictionary!) {
      //  let selectedImage : UIImageView = image
        imageChosen.image = image2.image

    }


}

Answer 1

//Complete solution with delegates and image handling    

     import UIKit

        class ViewController: UIViewController,UIImagePickerControllerDelegate,UINavigationControllerDelegate {

            @IBOutlet weak var myImageView: UIImageView!
            let picker = UIImagePickerController()

            @IBAction func gallery(sender: AnyObject) {

                if UIImagePickerController.availableMediaTypesForSourceType(.PhotoLibrary) != nil {
                    picker.allowsEditing = false
                    picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceType.PhotoLibrary
                    presentViewController(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)
                } else {
                    noCamera()
                }

            }
            func noCamera(){
                let alertVC = UIAlertController(title: "No Camera", message: "Sorry, Gallery is not accessible.", preferredStyle: .Alert)
                let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style:.Default, handler: nil)
                alertVC.addAction(okAction)
                presentViewController(alertVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }

            override func viewDidLoad() {
                super.viewDidLoad()
                // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
                picker.delegate = self   //the required delegate to get a photo back to the app.
             }

            //MARK: - Delegates
            //What to do when the picker returns with a photo
            func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) {
                var chosenImage = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as! UIImage //2
                myImageView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit //3
                myImageView.image = chosenImage //4
                dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) //5
            }
            //What to do if the image picker cancels.
            func imagePickerControllerDidCancel(picker: UIImagePickerController) {
                dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
            }
        }

Demo Project

Answer 2

Several problems.

If you look at the docs the method imagePickerController:didFinishPickingImage:editingInfo: was deprecated in iOS 3.0.

It's a fair bet it's not even being called. (You have the line that sets up your view controller as the delegate commented out, so the image picker won't call your delegate methods.

In your imagePickerController:didFinishPickingImage:editingInfo: method you have image2 defined as a UIImageView. It's not, it's a UIImage.

You should un-comment the line image.delegate = self.

You should implement the method imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo: instead of imagePickerController:didFinishPickingImage:editingInfo:.

You probably also need to add UIImagePickerControllerDelegate to the definition of your view controller class so the compiler knows that your view controller conforms to the UIImagePickerControllerDelegate protocol.