System image picker support? #295

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saagarjha · 2022-12-09T08:59:37Z

saagarjha commented

2022-12-09 08:59:37 +00:00

On iOS, clients of UIImagePickerViewController and PHPickerViewController can access provide a full-featured image picker without having to request access to the user's photo library. On Mac Catalyst, this also allows the user to use the system file chooser to select a file. Have you considered supporting these?

On iOS, clients of `UIImagePickerViewController` and `PHPickerViewController` can access provide a full-featured image picker without having to request access to the user's photo library. On Mac Catalyst, this also allows the user to use the system file chooser to select a file. Have you considered supporting these?

shadowfacts commented

2022-12-09 17:59:28 +00:00

I have, but unfortunately Mastodon's attachment restrictions (up to 4 images OR 1 video) aren't expressible with PHPickerViewController.

saagarjha commented

2022-12-10 12:56:23 +00:00

Unsure how you would feel about this UI but I would personally be OK with letting the user select whatever they want and flagging them once they hit the restrictions, so they can fix it before posting. This would be similar to the situation where you can just keep pasting into the compose window and go over the limit that way.

shadowfacts commented

2022-12-11 00:25:55 +00:00

That's a possibility. I'll have to think about.

nazgul commented

2023-01-02 19:32:37 +00:00

Putting my vote in here for this. I have 50K photos on my phone. Not being able to browse the categories or search for things means any time I post a photo, I go to a different app.