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• seanyda GBMember ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  I might be wrong but I believe there are limitations on the iOS API preventing you taking multiple photos. The workaround I have is use the Xam.Plugin.Media plugin and once the image has been taken, fire the same call.

  It keeps looping through until the user presses cancel.

  var file = await CrossMedia.Current.TakePhotoAsync(new Plugin.Media.Abstractions.StoreCameraMediaOptions
      {
          Directory = "Sample",
          Name = "test.jpg"
      });
  
      if (file == null)
          return;
  
      await DisplayAlert("File Location", file.Path, "OK");
  
      image.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() =>
      {
          var stream = file.GetStream();
          file.Dispose();
          return stream;
      }); 
  
  RUNMETHODAGAIN();
  

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• rakeshraghavan INMember ✭✭

  September 2017

  @seanyda thank you for your reply. These code is for taking a single photo. But i need to open my camera and take multiple pictures at a time. In android i used MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA. But in IOS I dont have any idea

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• seanyda GBMember ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Yeah but what the code is doing is opening up the camera, Taking a photo, closing the camera and then instantly reopening it again. So you're taking multiple photos because it's rerunning the method without any more user input. It's not exactly what you're looking for but it's a workaround.

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• rakeshraghavan INMember ✭✭

  October 2017

  As you told i repeated the code in loop .But suppose if user only want 2 images?
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {

                              file = await MediaPicker.TakePhotoAsync(new StoreCameraMediaOptions { SaveToAlbum = true, Name = "", Directory = "" });
                              if (file != null)
  

  {
  //code to save
  }

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• rakeshraghavan INMember ✭✭

  October 2017

  Is there any solution for my issue?

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• Gigex42 USMember ✭✭✭✭

  October 2017

  @rakeshraghavan said:
  As you told i repeated the code in loop .But suppose if user only want 2 images?
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {

                              file = await MediaPicker.TakePhotoAsync(new StoreCameraMediaOptions { SaveToAlbum = true, Name = "", Directory = "" });
                              if (file != null)
  

  {
  //code to save
  }

  Then create a user input letting the user decide how many pictures he wants to take?

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• seanyda GBMember ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 2017 Accepted Answer

  @rakeshraghavan said:
  As you told i repeated the code in loop .But suppose if user only want 2 images?
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {

                              file = await MediaPicker.TakePhotoAsync(new StoreCameraMediaOptions { SaveToAlbum = true, Name = "", Directory = "" });
                              if (file != null)
  

  {
  //code to save
  }

  The user can press cancel at anytime to stop taking pictures, and it'll hit the return and stop running the code. But its ran the logic to save the images each time a photo has been taken.

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• rakeshraghavan INMember ✭✭

  October 2017 Accepted Answer

  @seanyda Thanks a lot.

  I added a infinite loop .i user press back button in android and user click cancel in ios the loop will exit

  bool isCamera = true;
  while (isCamera)
  {
  file = await MediaPicker.TakePhotoAsync(new StoreCameraMediaOptions { SaveToAlbum = true, Name = "", Directory = "" });
  if (file != null)
  {
  //save code}
  else{
  isCamera=false;
  }

  }

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• Tahsin DEMember ✭

  January 2019

  We had the same request several times in our app projects, therefore we started developing a plugin for that. You can try CrossApps.Photo.Plugin it allows you to take multiple images in one view, but is still beta -.-

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• Tahsin DEMember ✭

  June 2019

  We finished our beta test you can get a trial version on our web page, just google for xamarin forms photo plugin (cross-apps)

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