iPhone, if possible to get a photo from album without use UIImagePickerController?

as topic, I want iPhone app can access th开发者_运维百科e photo album and got a photo but without popup the UIImagePickerController, does it possible ?

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You can, with iOS 4 or later. Look at the documentation for ALAssetsLibrary and the associated AssetsLibrary.framework. You would have to determine what media you're interested in yourself and basically handle all the niceness the built-in picker does for you.